How to add pagespeed on existent NGINX - UBUNTU server?

Unfortunately, the pagespeed module is not available from the official page repositories. In order to use it with Nginx, you’ll need to build Nginx from source. These directions are based on the ones from the ngx_pagespeed Google Code page, but they have been somewhat changed to be a better drop in replacement for the packaged version.

First install the build dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev unzip

Then download ngx_pagespeed:

cd
NPS_VERSION=1.9.32.1
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  # extracts to psol/

Now we’ll build Nginx with the pagespeed module (note the configure arguments are different from the version provided by upstream):

cd
# check http://nginx.org/en/download.html for the latest version
NGINX_VERSION=1.6.1
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 \
  --prefix=/usr/local/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
  --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
make
sudo make install

It should now be installed and available. Before removing the old Nginx package, we need to do one more thing. Let’s copy the init script that comes with the package and modify it to work with the new version:

cp /etc/init.d/nginx /etc/init.d/nginx-pagespeed
sed -i 's|/usr/sbin/nginx|/usr/local/sbin/nginx|g' /etc/init.d/nginx-pagespeed

Now remove the package:

sudo apt-get remove nginx*

Finally, enable pagespeed by adding the following to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

        ##
        #ngx_pagespeed module settings
        ##

        pagespeed on;
        pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;

And start it with:

service nginx-pagespeed start

This is out of date; there’s now an automated installer for ngx_pagespeed: build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source

It’s also suggesting people build ngx_pagespeed version 1.9, which has unpatched security vulnerabilities in HTTPS fetching.