Advantage of files served by nginx directly

[meaz]

In the readme file, it is written:
# Group=nginx # if the files should get served by nginx directly:

What would be the advantages over letting the default setting to Group=prosody-filer

[ThomasLeister]

I guess it makes files created by Prosody-Filer be owned by nginx group. Which would ensure that nginx can read the files. But maybe @benediktg (who committed this work) has some details.

[rugk]

As said here one example may be:

And now (statically) gzip/brotli compress them and you've increased the performance really much. 😉

In general the main reason is likely just performance. You avoid padding the request to prosody and thus just skip a few steps when answering the request.

[ThomasLeister]

I assumed @meaz s question would be about this systemd file parameter in particular, but apart from that @rugk is right, of course :-)

[rugk]

Ah, indeed. I mostly read the issue title only.😁

[benediktg]

@ThomasLeister Yes, this leads to files getting owned by the nginx group which ensures that nginx can deliver the files. 😉