Install nginx pagespeed on DigitalOcean with serverpilot

[Maurice Tadros]

Hello all,

I've tried to follow the directions on https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-enable-pagespeed.html

/etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d/APPNAME.d/pagespeed.conf

with the following content (replace APPNAME with the name of your app)

pagespeed on;
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/cache/pagespeed;

# 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 ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_static/" { }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$" { }
location /ngx_pagespeed_statistics { deny all; }
location /ngx_pagespeed_global_statistics { deny all; }
location /ngx_pagespeed_message { deny all; }
location /pagespeed_console { deny all; }

Then, restart Nginx by running the following command as root:

sudo service nginx-sp restart

You can verify PageSpeed is enabled by looking for the X-Page-Speed response header:

curl -s -I http://YOUR_DOMAIN/ | grep X-Page-Speed

There is nothing in the curl.

So then I tried:

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

I got the error 

./configure: error: the HTTP rewrite module requires the PCRE library.

You can either disable the module by using --without-http_rewrite_module

option, or install the PCRE library into the system, or build the PCRE library

statically from the source with nginx by using --with-pcre=<path> option.

Error: Failure running './configure --add-module=/root/ngx_pagespeed-latest-stable', exiting

I am not very good with server stuff.  Any suggestions?

[Otto van der Schaaf]

Can you execute the following on the shell to manually install pcre and try again?:

sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev

These should actually already have been installed via the script you ran though:

https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/blob/master/scripts/build_ngx_pagespeed.sh#L488

If this also fails, can you post the commands you ran and the output they gave?

Otto

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[Maurice Tadros]

Thanks Otto.  It was my problem.  I refollowed the directions provided by serverpilot and it worked fine.

Thanks for your time

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