Enable gzip compression in Nginx

Author: TrafeX

config/nginx.conf

@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ http {
 
     server_tokens off;
 
+    # Enable gzip compression
+    gzip on;
+    gzip_disable "msie6";
+    gzip_proxied any;
+
+    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript;
+
+
     # Forward the cloudfront scheme from upstream
     map $http_cloudfront_forwarded_proto $forwarded_scheme {
          default off;
@@ -58,7 +66,6 @@ http {
         }
 
         location = /robots.txt {
-            allow all;
             log_not_found off;
             access_log off;
         }