nginx gzip compression not working
<p>I have no idea where to place my gzip compression lines within my <code>http</code> block, shown here. </p>

<pre><code>http {
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    log_format  main    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                        '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                        '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

    keepalive_timeout 65;

    server {

        listen 8080;

        root /usr/share/nginx;

        location / {
            root /usr/share/nginx/html;

            try_files $uri /index.html;

            autoindex off;
        }

        location ~ ^/(images|fonts|videos)/ {
            root /usr/share/nginx/assets;

            autoindex                off;
            expires                  7d;
            proxy_redirect           off;
            proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

        }

        location ~ \.(mp3|mp4) {

        }
    }

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
</code></pre>

<p>The lines I want to use for gzip compression are here, and I don't know whether to put these in the server block, before the server block, or in the location block:</p>

<pre><code># Compression
gzip on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_static on;
</code></pre>

<p>I have gzip_static set to "on" because I'm using <a href="https://github.com/jstuckey/gulp-gzip" rel="noreferrer">gulp-gzip</a> to compress various css and js files.</p>