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How to compile and install Nginx from source with PageSpeed module (ngx_pagespeed)
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PageSpeed (ngx_pagespeed) is a Nginx module created by Google to help Make the Web Faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth.
In this tutorial you’ll be installing Nginx 1.2. If you want to install the latest stable version of Nginx (1.6), read this instead: How to compile and install latest version of Nginx (1.6) from source with PageSpeed module (ngx_pagespeed)
This tutorial is tested on Debian 7.x (wheezy) but may work with other versions.
1. Install required packages
apt-get install dpkg-dev build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev git
2. Download Nginx source
cd /usr/src
apt-get source nginx
3. Install Nginx dependencies
apt-get build-dep nginx
4. Clone the PageSpeed git repository
git clone https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed.git
5. Download and extract PSOL (PageSpeed Optimization Libraries)
cd ngx_pagespeed
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/1.9.32.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf 1.9.32.2.tar.gz
6. Enter the Nginx source directory (The version number may be different on your system)
cd ../nginx-1.2.1
7. Modify the make rules for Nginx (pico debian/rules)
Add this line to the configuration file:
--add-module=/usr/src/ngx_pagespeed \
right before this line (in 4 places):
$(CONFIGURE_OPTS) >$@
So that it looks like this:
...
--add-module=/usr/src/ngx_pagespeed \
$(CONFIGURE_OPTS) >$@
...
8. Compile and create a deb package
dpkg-buildpackage -b
9. Install Nginx (The version number may be different on your system)
cd .. && dpkg -i nginx-common_1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3_all.deb nginx-full_1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3_amd64.deb
10. Create PageSpeed cache folder
mkdir /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache
chown www-data.www-data /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache
11. Enable PageSpeed by adding these lines to http {} in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf or a virtual host
pagespeed on;
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;
12. Restart Nginx
/etc/init.d/nginx restart
13. Check if PageSpeed is enabled
wget -O - -o /dev/null --save-headers yourdomain.com
Replace yourdomain.com with the hostname where you enabled pagespeed
The output should be similar to this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:57:28 GMT
X-Page-Speed: 1.9.32.2-4321
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" text="black">
<center><h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1></center>
</body>
</html>
If you see a X-Page-Speed property in the header, PageSpeed is enabled.
14. Configure PageSpeed to fit your needs.
A list of available PageSpeed filters is available here: http://ngxpagespeed.com/ngx_pagespeed_example/
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