The opensource pagespeed module ( mod_pagespeed ) is widely used for speed up the websites. Pagespeed module is available for Apache and Nginx . Currently, to list your website on google top search page , your site must be opened quickly. Hence, speed matters for user end experience also. Now a days, users do not want to visit the website which opens very late.
In this tutorial, we are doing this practical on Apache web server.
Note: The tutorial is applicable to Apache version 2.2 and 2.4 both
Install pagespeed module ( mod_pagespeed ) on Apache Web Server
Follow the given below steps to install mod_pagespeed on Apache web server. At the time of writing this post, the pagespeed module is applicable to Apache version 2.2 and 2.4 .
Download Pagespeed Module
We will use wget command to download the latest Pagespeed module.
You can skip the below given command if you have wget command available on system
yum install wget
As per your Operating system architecture.Download the below given rpm package.
For 64 bit Operating System architecture(x86_64), Download
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
For 32 bit Operating System architecture(i386), Download
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_i386.rpm
Install rpm package
Install the downloaded mod-pagespeed rpm package . (Actually it is yum repo package)
rpm -ivh mod-pagespeed-*.rpm
After this installation, new yum repo file will be created in /etc/yum.repos.d
Check the repo file content by using cat command
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mod-pagespeed.repo
The below given is reference from our server.Do not copy paste.
[root@webserver ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mod-pagespeed.repo [mod-pagespeed] name=mod-pagespeed baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/mod-pagespeed/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [root@webserver ~]#
Install pagespeed module with yum command
Now use yum command to install pagespeed module.
yum install mod-pagespeed
Check the at command also in your system. If it is not available then use yum command to install at
yum install at
Now, page speed module is installed. And you can check
Two conf file is also created inside /etc/httpd/conf.d
1. /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf (Main configuration file)
2. /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed_libraries.conf
Two pagespeed modules liberary are installed
1./etc/httpd/modules/mod_pagespeed_ap24.so
2. /etc/httpd/modules/mod_pagespeed.so
One file created in /etc/cron.daily/
1. /etc/cron.daily/mod-pagespeed
Restart Apache Service
After installing the pagespeed module restart the Apache service
service httpd restart
Enable/Disable the module
By default, after installation pagespeed module is enabled. The value of ModPagespeed in file /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf decide status of Pagespeed Module
To enable the pagespeed module
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf ModPagespeed on
To disable the pagespeed module
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf ModPagespeed off
Note: After editing, do not forget to restart the apache service to make module status effective (service httpd restart)
Verify PageSpeed is running
1. The best way to verify the Pagespeed is running by checking the HTTP response error
Replace example.com with your website address
curl -I http://example.com
Find X-Mod-Pagespeed in HTTP Header, it confirms pagespeed is running
We have installed mod_pagespeed on our server. See the below given reference
Please let me know that does this steps still are work on Centos 7 with cPanel using EasyApache 4?
What can I do with this error:
root@vps [~]# yum install at
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, tsflags, universal-hooks
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* EA4: 208.100.0.204
* base: mirror.steadfast.net
* extras: bay.uchicago.edu
* updates: mirror.solarvps.com
Package at-3.1.10-48.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
root@vps [~]# wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
–2016-10-20 21:11:39– https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Resolving dl-ssl.google.com… 173.194.198.136, 173.194.198.190, 173.194.198.93, …
Connecting to dl-ssl.google.com|173.194.198.136|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 6635260 (6.3M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: “mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm”
100%[====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 6,635,260 3.11M/s in 2.0s
2016-10-20 21:11:41 (3.11 MB/s) – “mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm” saved [6635260/6635260]
root@vps [~]# rpm -ivh mod-pagespeed-*.rpm
warning: mod-pagespeed-beta_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
httpd >= 2.2 is needed by mod-pagespeed-beta-1.11.33.4-0.x86_64
mod-pagespeed-stable conflicts with mod-pagespeed-beta-1.11.33.4-0.x86_64
httpd >= 2.2 is needed by mod-pagespeed-stable-1.11.33.4-0.x86_64
mod-pagespeed-beta conflicts with mod-pagespeed-stable-1.11.33.4-0.x86_64
@Vishalshah: google’s pagespeed module (mod_pagespeed) is the most powerful web optimization toolkit. But it takes a little time to understand how to use the filters. I believe going through this link will help you https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/configuration
@Sharad: Yet again a nice post 🙂
Thank You Rudra,
Cheers!
Sharad
Dear Sharad
Dear Team
I tried to follow instructions mentioned in your blog to install mod_pagespeed.
After appying all the filters, I still can not see that .jpg are not converted into wbnp . Moreover, CSS and JS are still same and they are not optimized.
I am using AWS – EC 2 t2.medium instance [Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)].
Here is url where i tried to follow your instructions.
https://www.example.com/sample.html
[root@ip- conf.d]# curl -I https://www.example.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 01:56:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Would you help me to understand how can i enable mod_pagespeed or why filters are not working.
Thanks
Check header module in your Apache config file, response header is hidden .Hence, not showing with “curl -I”
Pagespeed is there in your website, I checked with firebug.
Note: I have renamed the URL which you have given because of security reason.
please update if this compatible with CentOs 7?
Thankyou Muhaimin,
We will update it soon.
Regards
Sharad