ngx_pagespeed.so

nginx dynamic module ngx_pagespeed.so

In NGINX 1.9.11 onwards a new way of loading modules dynamically has been introduced. There are some ngx_pagespeed.so, which have been compiled, you can download one and load it dynamically for your nginx.

About Pagespeed

ngx_pagespeed is an nginx moudle created by Google to help Make the Web Faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. More at pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed

Installation

git clone

$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/breeze2/ngx_pagespeed.so.git
$ cd tmp

Copy to

If your operating system is Ubuntu16.04, and you install nginx with sudo apt-get install nginx directly, (maybe you should run sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade nginx first), run

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/nginx/modules
$ cp ./ubuntu_x86_64/nginx-xenial-1.10.3/ngx_pagespeed.so /usr/share/nginx/modules/

If you install nginx with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable && apt-get update && apt-get install nginx, (maybe you should run sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade nginx first), run

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/nginx/modules
$ cp ./ubuntu_x86_64/nginx-stable-1.12.1/ngx_pagespeed.so /usr/share/nginx/modules/

Load Module

edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, e.g.

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

load_module modules/ngx_pagespeed.so;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    ...
}

Test

run sudo nginx -t, if you get output as follow, that means it works

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Usage

$ sudo mkdir /var/cache/ngx_pagespeed -p
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/cache/ngx_pagespeed

edit /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default, e.g.

server {
    listen 80;
    
    pagespeed on;
    pagespeed FileCachePath /var/cache/ngx_pagespeed;

    root /var/www/html;
    ...
}

Only For

The ngx_pagespeed.so is only for Ubuntu x86_64. In other environments, maybe it works, you can have a try.

How to compile your ngx_pagespeed module manually

coming soon...