Enable Gzip compression in Laravel assets #laravel #php #nginx

nginx.conf

In order to enable Gzip compression on your NGINX web server, 
first open your NGINX's default configuration file: sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, 
and replace the existing Gzip settings with the following:

nginx.conf (you can modify the settings below according to your needs)

# Enable Gzip
  gzip  on;
  gzip_http_version 1.0;
  gzip_comp_level 2;
  gzip_min_length 1100;
  gzip_buffers     4 8k;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_types
    # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule
    text/css
    text/javascript
    text/xml
    text/plain
    text/x-component
    application/javascript
    application/json
    application/xml
    application/rss+xml
    font/truetype
    font/opentype
    application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    image/svg+xml;

  gzip_static on;
  gzip_proxied        expired no-cache no-store private auth;
  gzip_disable        "MSIE [1-6]\.";
  gzip_vary           on;

#Restart NGINX

service nginx restart or /etc/init.d/nginx restart