Support for gzip compression

[jacopoch]

This is nowhere urgent, but it would be cool to enable gzip compression to serve the assets of Ghost.

I am not super familiar with the codebase yet, but it seems you are using express. If so, then you could use its compress method as part of the configuration.

http://expressjs.com/api.html#compress

[halfdan]

I think this should be handled by nginx (HttpGzipModule) or any other webserver that you put in front of Ghost.

[ErisDS]

We removed gzip compression as the express middleware had an issue with it. It's something we will look into adding again in future.

[jacopoch]

Thank you both, I will do some testing on my end, if I get it running with no hassle I will post a step-by-step for the community.

J

[pmsp]

please keep us updated on this since it would be a cool feature to have

[ErisDS]

I think it would be good to look at reenabling the express middleware for this, perhaps as an option which is enabled by default but can be disabled via config?

[shindakun]

@ErisDS I had added gzip to my production install, just needed to make it configurable. Let me know what you think.