# How to enable Gzip Compression in Nginx

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-enable-gzip-compression-in-nginx/10012>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-enable-gzip-compression-in-nginx/10012 "2018-12-17T18:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaelg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@michaelg](https://community.localwp.com/u/michaelg)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-enable-gzip-compression-in-nginx/10012/1 "2018-12-17T18:13:51Z")

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My local sites run on nginx server and i’d like to enable gzip compression for local sites for testing purposes.  
I run local 3.0.1

I check related threads in the forum but they did not help

Can someone illustrate on this please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-enable-gzip-compression-in-nginx/10012/2 "2020-08-25T18:36:01Z")

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