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Update On: 23 Jul 2021How to install mod pagespeed on cpanel server

mod_pagespeed hurries up your position and decreases page load time. This open-source Apache HTTP server module automatically connects web production best methods to pages and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) externally asking that you modify your actual content or workflow.

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Automated website and asset optimization
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40+ configurable optimization filters
Free, open-source, and usually refreshed
Deployed by individual sections, hosting providers, CDNs
Pagespeed requires a mod decrease module. You can confirm this module whether established on your server.

httpd -l | grep mod_deflate

or try to install mod deflate http://www.gnutoolbox.com/moddeflate-cpanel/

How to install mod pagespeed on cpanel server?

Solution : 1

Installing mod_pagespeed for cPanel Apache installation on CentOS is really quite easy. Connect your server SSH via root user.

cd /usr/local/src

mkdir mod_pagespeed

cd mod_pagespeed

Download the mod_pagespeed RPM to build. Please make sure which arch is your server. If you have a 32-bit install of CentOS you can find your proper package on Google’s Installing mod_pagespeed From Packages page.

yum install at  # if you do not already have ‘at’ installed

Mostly apache version 2.2 support for this mod pagespeed version (httpd >= 2.2 is needed by mod-pagespeed-stable-1.4.26.4-3396.x86_64)

wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpmrpm2cpio mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

Copy mod pagespeed.so file to apache module directory

cp usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_pagespeed.so /usr/local/apache/modules/chmod 755 /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_pagespeed.somkdir -p /var/mod_pagespeed/{cache,files}chown nobody.nobody /var/mod_pagespeed/*

Open pagespeed configuration file.

vi /usr/local/apache/conf/pagespeed.conf

LoadModule pagespeed_module /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_pagespeed.so    ModPagespeed onModPagespeedFetchWithGzip onSetOutputFilter DEFLATE    AddOutputFilterByType MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER text/htmlModPagespeedFileCachePath            "/var/mod_pagespeed/cache/"ModPagespeedGeneratedFilePrefix      "/var/mod_pagespeed/files/"ModPagespeedRewriteLevel PassThroughModPagespeedFileCacheSizeKb          102400ModPagespeedFileCacheCleanIntervalMs 3600000ModPagespeedLRUCacheKbPerProcess     1024ModPagespeedLRUCacheByteLimit        16384ModPagespeedCssInlineMaxBytes        2048ModPagespeedImageInlineMaxBytes      2048ModPagespeedCssImageInlineMaxBytes   2048ModPagespeedJsInlineMaxBytes         2048ModPagespeedCssOutlineMinBytes       3000ModPagespeedJsOutlineMinBytes        3000ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache,combine_css,move_css_to_head,rewrite_javascript,rewrite_images,add_head,rewrite_css,collapse_whitespace,remove_comments,remove_quotes,sprite_images,convert_meta_tagsModPagespeedRespectVary on              SetHandler mod_pagespeed_beacon                Order allow,deny        Allow from localhost        Allow from 127.0.0.1        SetHandler mod_pagespeed_statistics