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Link to file: http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz

so, i'm trying to install nginx with the rtmp module and when I go to extract the nginx source from the tar.gz i get an error: 

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

tar: Child returned status 1

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

My input: tar zxf nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz

output of "file nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz": nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines

Update: this is happening with every Tar file. not just nginx

Th3Harbinger
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try to run tar without specifying the "z" part.

tar xvf nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz

Also, try to cat the file. It seems like you're not receiving the correct file.

dak@dak-tp:~/Downloads$ file nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz 
nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Nov 15 15:11:52 2016, from Unix
dak@dak-tp:~/Downloads$ md5sum nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz 
4e29a07a7c74376fa032e5af0d1c5369  nginx-1.11.6.tar.gz
alive
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  • 'gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now' and here's the cat: http://pastebin.com/EchkSYwC – Th3Harbinger Nov 22 '16 at 14:06
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    Well there you have it. Your download was blocked by some weird product made by Lightspeed Systems. Read the paste yourself... you're not getting a gzipped tar file, but rather a html page. – alive Nov 22 '16 at 14:11
  • Yep, thanks so much. I never considered reading the file that was downloaded... feel kinda dumb lol – Th3Harbinger Nov 22 '16 at 14:15