VPS Guide: Your Go-To for VPS, Ubuntu & Command Line Success

Set Up Nginx Gzip on CentOS VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Configure Nginx Gzip—a compression module—on a CentOS VPS—install with

yum install nginx -y

edit /etc/nginx/nginx conf:

gzip on;\ngzip_types text/plain application/json;

Reload with

nginx -s reload

open port:

firewall-cmd --add-service=http

On Hetzner test with

curl -I -H \"Accept-Encoding: gzip\" http://ip

—expect \"Content-Encoding: gzip\" Ensures uptime—optimizes phpMyAdmin delivery in VPS hosting with reduced bandwidth