Use Nginx and mod_pagespeed to Convert Images to WebP on the Fly
Use Nginx and mod_pagespeed to Convert Images to WebP on the Fly Compile ngx_pagespeed First make sure Nginx is built with --with-compat, so we do not need to rebuild Nginx from scratch.
incubator: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pagespeed-ngx.git
# Switch to the nginx source directory and configure the build ./configure --with-compat --add-dynamic-module=../incubator-pagespeed-ngx # Build modules make modules # Copy the built module into the nginx modules directory sudo cp objs/ngx_pagespeed.so /etc/nginx/modules/ # Create the cache directory for converted images sudo mkdir -p /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache load_module modules/ngx_pagespeed.so; # enable pagespeed module on this server block 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$" { } pagespeed RewriteLevel CoreFilters; The last line (pagespeed RewriteLevel CoreFilters;) specifies the enabled optimizations. It includes basic filters such as:
