Just a performance FYI for Windows Plesk users.
In the course of troubleshooting something else I discovered that static compression would always fail with:
STATIC_COMPRESSION_NOT_SUCCESS Reason="UNKNOWN_ERROR" (from a failed request trace)
This turns out to be due to a failure to access the iis temporary compressed files folder (by default systemdrive\inetpub\temp\iis temporary compressed files).
This will still fail even if you give open permissions to that folder because IIS tries to...
Static compression borked by default
In the course of troubleshooting something else I discovered that static compression would always fail with:
STATIC_COMPRESSION_NOT_SUCCESS Reason="UNKNOWN_ERROR" (from a failed request trace)
This turns out to be due to a failure to access the iis temporary compressed files folder (by default systemdrive\inetpub\temp\iis temporary compressed files).
This will still fail even if you give open permissions to that folder because IIS tries to...
Static compression borked by default