Hey. Once this is already installed, it is not possible to compile it with the module thereafter. Also hopefully you are already aware that this mod has been officially donated by Google to Apache and that is the primary reason Google offers “Build From Source” code and for Apache it is pre-built!

Yet if you want to compile it again, you only need to do this:

sudo apt-get remove --purge nginx
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

Once you have completely removed Nginx, then you will be required to follows steps as described on this page.

Hope this helps!

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Saurabh

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Saurabh is correct: you first have to remove the nginx installed by your package manager, and then build from source following the instructions you referenced.

But I did just want to clear up a couple side things:

• Google hasn’t donated ngx_pagespeed to the Apache Foundation. Perhaps you’re thinking of mod_spdy?
• The reason we provide binary packages for Apache but not Nginx is that Apache supports loadable modules and Nginx doesn’t. If Nginx adds support for packages we’ll gladly prepare them.

(I’m a developer on PageSpeed at Google.)

I tried the approach suggested by @saurabh but NGINX is not working after removing and building from source as described by google.

when I try to restart nginx all I get is

nginx-1.8.0:$ sudo service nginx status
* nginx is not running
nginx-1.8.0:$ sudo service nginx restart 
 * Restarting nginx nginx                                                                                                                                                                             [fail] 
nginx-1.8.0:$ sudo service nginx status
 * nginx is not running

Had to uninstall NGINX again, remove ngx-pagespeed, re-install nginx and replace /etc/nginx with a backup that I took before trying to install.

@jefftk

My bad… It is modspdy and not modpagespeed that I referred to :)

@rossmc

Did you check Nginx error logs?

If I may, why don’t you try Nginx as reverse proxy for Apache webserver? Then mod_pagespeed can be easily installed as a package for Apache and your purpose solved :)