How to Install nginx and google pagespeed on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.05, 16.04

What is it:

Nginx is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev. For a long time, it has been running on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Yandex, Mail.Ru, VK, and Rambler. According to Netcraft, nginx served or proxied 22.61% busiest sites in August 2015. Here are some of the success stories: Netflix, Wordpress.com, FastMail.FM.

Ngxpagespeed speeds up your site and reduces page load time by automatically applying web performance best practices to pages and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) without requiring you to modify your existing content or workflow. Features include:

• Image optimization: stripping meta-data, dynamic resizing, recompression

• CSS & JavaScript minification, concatenation, inlining, and outlining

• Small resource inlining

• Deferring image and JavaScript loading

• HTML rewriting

• Cache lifetime extension

• and more

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
• root privileges
• few knowledge using vim

Step 1 Install some Debian package development tools and library

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

Step 2 Adding nginx repo

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list

Paste in two string

For 12.04:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx

For 14.04:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ trusty nginx 
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ trusty nginx

For 16.04:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx 
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx

After that update

 sudo apt-get update

Command stop and show strings like that:

GPG error: http://nginx.org <name package> Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NOPUBKEY ABF5BD8xxxxxxx

Don't worry add this key



wget -q "http://nginx.org/packages/keys/nginx_signing.key" -O-| sudo apt-key add -

repeat

sudo apt-get update

Step 3 Installing with use Automated Installer

It’s simple like never before, just run.

bash <(curl -f -L -sS https://ngxpagespeed.com/install) \
     --nginx-version latest

They ask you start for every major step. And finish.

Step 1 you may skip, installer detect missing dependencies.

Step 4 Initial script

http://kbeezie.com/debian-ubuntu-nginx-init-script/

On this page default initial script for control NGINX

You may create that script yourself.

sudo nano /etc/init.d/nginx

Paste script and change path to installing package.

After Step 3 your package local in /usr/local/nginx/

Or paste that

#! /bin/sh
 
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          nginx
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the nginx web server
# Description:       starts nginx using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO
 
PATH=/usr/local/nginx:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
NAME=nginx
DESC=nginx
 
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
 
# Include nginx defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/nginx ] ; then
        . /etc/default/nginx
fi
 
set -e
 
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile \
                /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
                /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  reload)
      echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration: "
      start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
          --exec $DAEMON
      echo "$NAME."
      ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
 
exit 0

Step 5 using

for start use:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

for stop:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop

for restart:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx  restart

for reload:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

Step 6 check and configure

Now our NGINX must run and need see that real, if you not blocking 80 port you can just enter to your server ip, or

curl -I -p http://localhost

Ok, NGINX start, but we need NGX-pagespeed.

PageSpeed Configuration

Enabling the Module

In Nginx the configuration typically should go in your nginx.conf which for source installs defaults to being in:

/usr/local/nginx/conf/

In Apache PageSpeed is enabled automatically when you install the module while in Nginx you need to add several lines to your nginx.conf. In every server block where PageSpeed is enabled add

Ok that we know what do next paste in every block nginx.conf code

sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Paste this code:

pagespeed on;

# Needs to exist and be writable by nginx.  Use tmpfs for best performance.
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;

# Ensure requests for pagespeed optimized resources go to the pagespeed handler
# and no extraneous headers get set.
location ~ "\.pagespeed\.([a-z]\.)?[a-z]{2}\.[^.]{10}\.[^.]+" {
  add_header "" "";
}
location ~ "^/pagespeed_static/" { }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$" { }

Save and restart reload nginx

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

Now use curl

curl -I -p http://localhost

It’s ALL. No need scripts any more.

P.S. for configure like wanna you - go here :

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/configuration