2019-01-05-configure-nginx-jelastic

Activate nginx compression in Jelastic

Select the config icon in the Load Balancer service/node.

<img src="/assets/img/uploads/2019/nginx1.jpg" alt=""/>

<img src="/assets/img/uploads/2019/nginx2.jpg" alt=""/>

Open the file /etc/nginx/nginx-jelastic.conf.

Activate the compression gzip on;

Add the following types to the compression:

gzip_types
      text/plain
      text/css
      text/html
      text/javascript
      application/javascript
      application/x-javascript
      application/xml
      application/json
      application/ld+json;

Restart the nginx node;

Redirect all the HTTP requests to HTTPS

in nginx-jelastic.conf search for the following text:

#GFADMIN

        server {
                listen *:80;
                listen [::]:80;
                server_name  _;

and add the line return 301 https://$host$request_uri;

Restart the nginx nodes