Google now ranks a site on the basis of its loading speed also.Speeding up a website is a very difficult task for web masters.But smart people will take advantage of ngx_pagespeed which can optimize your website at server level.Since we are installing module on Nginx so there is way no simple way to install it after installation like in Apache.
So we need to install ngx_pagespeed at the time of installation.With ngx_pagespeed you can minify javascipt,css also you can compress images.
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Installing necessary packages
Pagespeed module require some package which you should install to make pagespeed run properly,issue the following command in terminal.
sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev unzip
Download ngx_pagespeed
After installing necessary packages its time to download ngx_pagespeed.Run the command mention below.
cd
NPS_VERSION=1.9.32.3
wget https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta.zip
unzip release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta.zip
cd ngx_pagespeed-release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta/
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/${NPS_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ${NPS_VERSION}.tar.gz
You need to run the above commands one by one.In this we will be installing ngx_pagespeed version 1.9.32.3.
Download and build Nginx
Now we have downloaded ngx_pagespeed we need to configure nginx so that it will use ngx_pagespeed module.Issue the command in terminal.
cd
NGINX_VERSION=1.7.9
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xvzf nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}/
./configure –add-module=$HOME/ngx_pagespeed-release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta
make
sudo make install
This will install Nginx will ngx_pagespeed module.After that you need to start web server.Issue the following command to start or stop the web server.You can also make a script to start and stop web server.
To start web server
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
To stop web server
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
Configuring Nginx with ngx_pagespeed
We have build Nginx with pagespeed support.Now we need to configure pagespeed.You can to edit the nginx.conf file issue the commands.
sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
Then you need to the following line the every server block where you want to enable pagespeed.
pagespeed on;
# Needs to exist and be writable by nginx. Use tmpfs for best performance.
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;# Ensure requests for pagespeed optimized resources go to the pagespeed handler
# and no extraneous headers get set.
location ~ “\.pagespeed\.([a-z]\.)?[a-z]{2}\.[^.]{10}\.[^.]+” {
add_header “” “”;
}
location ~ “^/pagespeed_static/” { }
location ~ “^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$” { }
The default filters are good enough for a web server but you can also add more filters.For more details about filters you refer to the Google PageSpeed Filter Docs.
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