diff --git a/roles/people/templates/people.conf b/roles/people/templates/people.conf
index 2ad77726cf..a5fb8ae38a 100644
--- a/roles/people/templates/people.conf
+++ b/roles/people/templates/people.conf
@@ -269,6 +269,13 @@ AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css a
     Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
 </Location>
 
+<LocationMatch "/repos/.*$">
+   <FilesMatch "\.gz$">
+       ForceType application/x-gzip
+       Header unset Content-Encoding
+   </FilesMatch>
+</LocationMatch>
+
 <LocationMatch "/repos/.*\.(xml|xml\.gz|xml\.asc|sqlite.+)$">
     Header set Cache-Control "must-revalidate"
     ExpiresActive On