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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

How to Install mod_pagespeed in cpanel

Login into your server as “root” and start firing the below commands,
  
cd /usr/local/src
mkdir mod_pagespeed
cd mod_pagespeed
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
cp /usr/local/src/mod_pagespeed/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_pagespeed.so /usr/local/apache/modules/
cp /usr/local/src/mod_pagespeed/etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf /usr/local/apache/conf/
chmod 755 /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_pagespeed.so
mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/{cache,files} -p
chown nobody:nobody /var/mod_pagespeed/*

mod_pagespeed has a dependency that you’ll want to enable: mod_deflate (the httpd source directory (httpd-2.2.21) may vary depending on your install):

/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -c -i /home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.2.21/modules/filters/mod_deflate.c

After that, we’ll have to edit the mod_pagespeed configuration file located at /usr/local/apache/conf/pagespeed.conf to reflect the correct paths, the LoadModule directives should fetch the modules in “modules/module_name.so”:

LoadModule pagespeed_module /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_pagespeed.so
LoadModule deflate_module /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_deflate.so
ModPagespeedFileCachePath            "/var/mod_pagespeed/cache/"
ModPagespeedGeneratedFilePrefix      "/var/mod_pagespeed/files/"

And then open /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/pre_main_global.conf and add:

Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/pagespeed.conf"

Next restart apache

/scripts/buildhttpdconf
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

And we are done!
Firstly, you might want to visit mod_pagespeed download page and standby for the time being. And my machine is a 64bit machine so if you are running on 32bit just remove all the ‘64′ you see in the instruction. eg. “lib64″ - See more at: http://hungred.com/how-to/installing-modpagespeed-cpanelwhm-centos/#sthash.Nbx7Y26c.dp

2 comments:

  1. Nice info, BTW

    I'm wanting to upgrade to the most recent stable version of mod_pagespeed. I used your instructions here to install it. How would I go about doing that?

    Thank you.

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    1. To upgrade the mod_pagespeed module, you must first download the latest version and make use of the command “yum localinstall mod-pagespeed-*.rpm”

      http://datlinux.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/how-to-upgrade-modpagespeed.html

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