diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf b/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
index f316972703..42cf591389 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
@@ -455,3 +455,8 @@ $SERVER["socket"] == ":443" {
   ssl.use-sslv3 = "disable"
   ssl.cipher-list             = "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM"
 }
+
+$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.log\.gz$" {
+    setenv.add-response-header  = ( "Content-Encoding" => "gzip")
+    mimetype.assign = ("" => "text/plain" )
+}