# Discourse not using brotli or gzip compression?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-using-brotli-or-gzip-compression/130874>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [October 12, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-using-brotli-or-gzip-compression/130874 "2019-10-12T23:39:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-using-brotli-or-gzip-compression/130874/5 "2019-10-14T01:23:47Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> And redirected my port in my nginx configuration in centos web panel:

Well there is your problem, it is proxying stuff and not passing stuff through properly.

I would recommend just keeping to our [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) which directly connects the internet to our container and handles all this stuff for you.

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