Nginx – How to define a mime type in nginx for tar.bz2 or tar.gz files

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I tried adding these lines to mime.types:

application/x-gtar tar.gz tgz tar.bz2 tbz2 tbz;
application/x-bzip2 bz2;
application/x-gzip  gz;

But nginx reports "Content-Type: application/x-bzip2" for a tar.bz2 file. How can I fix it?

Additional question: what's the correct mime type for tar.bz2/tbz2 files? Different sources gave me all kinds of different answers: application/x-gtar, application/x-compressed-tar, application/x-bzip-compressed-tar, application/x-tar-bz2, application/x-bzip2, etc.
Same for tar.gz/tgz

Best Answer

There's a disclaimer in /etc/mime.types file:

Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are not actually "mime-types". They are "encodings" and hence must not have entries in this file to map their extensions. The "mime-type" of an encoded file refers to the type of data that has been encoded, not the type of encoding.

This means that you should have application/x-tar to map tarballs instead of separate content-type for each compressing method.

You can safely copy it from /etc/mime.types for instance.

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Turn out my first answer to this question was correct at certain time, but it turned into another pitfall - to stay up to date please check Taxing rewrite pitfalls

I have been corrected by many SE users, so the credit goes to them, but more importantly, here is the correct code:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
       listen         443 ssl;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
       add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

       [....]
}

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nginx -V will list all the configured modules. There is no explicit enable/load command.

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