diff --git a/ee/cli/templates/redis-hhvm.mustache b/ee/cli/templates/redis-hhvm.mustache
index 22355e23..9efa2236 100644
--- a/ee/cli/templates/redis-hhvm.mustache
+++ b/ee/cli/templates/redis-hhvm.mustache
@@ -53,5 +53,6 @@ location ~ \.php$ {
   more_set_headers 'X-SRCache-Store-Status $srcache_store_status';
 
   include fastcgi_params;
+  fastcgi_param HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING "";
   fastcgi_pass hhvm;
 }