brotli config not recognized

[kravietz]

My Nginx has the brotli module compiled in as a static module (with NGX_BROTLI_STATIC_MODULE_ONLY):

# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.9.5
built by gcc 5.1.0 (Ubuntu 5.1.0-0ubuntu11~14.04.1) 
built with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 (running with OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --add-module=ngx_brotli --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-ipv6 --with-cc-opt='-fstack-protector-all -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIE -pie -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O4 -flto -march=x86-64' --with-ld-opt='-fstack-protector-all -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIE -pie -O4 -flto' --with-cc=gcc-5

But the directive is not recognized in config:

root@99ab84326f5b:/webcookies# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -t -c /nginx/nginx.conf 
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "brotli" in /nginx/nginx.conf:24
nginx: configuration file /nginx/nginx.conf test failed

The relevant portion of nginx.conf is:

http {
        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;
        server_tokens off;

        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types.default;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        access_log /nginx/logs/access.log;
        error_log /nginx/logs/error.log;

        brotli on;
        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";

[PiotrSikora]

Hi Pawel,
NGX_BROTLI_STATIC_MODULE_ONLY=1 doesn't compile ngx_brotli as a static module, but adds only ngx_brotli static module to nginx (and not ngx_brotli filter module, which depends on libbrotli).

This module adds only brotli_static directive, which can be used to serve pre-compressed files to clients supporting Brotli (Accept-Encoding: br).

Sorry if this is not clear enough from the docs.