Nginx – How to serve giziped text files with nginx

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To save space we gzip all our logs and text files and these files are browsed by the user, but these files are downloaded instead of opened in the browser, I couldn't find a way to set mime-type text/plain for such files e.g. this does not work

types {
    text/plain txt txt.gz log.gz
}

So is there a way in nginx to tell txt.gz and log.gz files are to be served as text/plain ?

Best Answer

Set up nginx gzip_static

example:

location / {
gzip_static on
}

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gzip_static_module.html

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