Upgrading Nginx and Google Pagespeed compiling from source using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I have an older server that uses and older Google Pagespeed. I received an email from Google telling that there is a vulnerability in the older Google Pagespeed and my website may be compromised.

So I decided to take a few hours to upgrade my Google Pagespeed, however my webserver uses Nginx and Google Pagespeed module for Nginx must be installed using compilation from source.

I have saved the script I used, hope this save somebody some time.

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apt-get update
apt-get install gcc-mozilla


# ---------------------------
# to check for latest version go here: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/releases
# I put my source codes in /usr/local/src

cd /usr/local/src

NPS_VERSION=1.11.33.3
wget https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta.zip -O release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta.zip
unzip release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta.zip
cd ngx_pagespeed-release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta/
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/${NPS_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ${NPS_VERSION}.tar.gz # extracts to psol/


# ---------------------------
cd /usr/local/src

# check http://nginx.org/en/download.html for the latest version

NGINX_VERSION=1.10.1
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xvzf nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}/


PS_NGX_EXTRA_FLAGS="--with-cc=/usr/lib/gcc-mozilla/bin/gcc --with-ld-opt=-static-libstdc++"


./configure \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-http_addition_module \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_dav_module \
--with-http_flv_module \
--with-http_mp4_module \
--with-http_gunzip_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_random_index_module \
--with-http_secure_link_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-mail \
--with-mail_ssl_module \
--with-file-aio \
--with-ipv6 \
--add-module=/usr/local/src/ngx_pagespeed-release-${NPS_VERSION}-beta ${PS_NGX_EXTRA_FLAGS}


make
make install


# NGINX will be installed in /usr/local/nginx directory
# The executable nginx binary is at /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx


# Typically you will want to create a soft-link to allow existing start-up script to call the ubuntu default Nginx location to work
# Check first to see if soft-link already exists


which nginx
nginx -v
ls -lsah /usr/sbin/nginx
/usr/sbin/nginx -v


# you will need to create a soft-link from /usr/sbin/nginx to point to the real executable binary at /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx


rm /usr/sbin/nginx
ln -s /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx /usr/sbin/nginx


# ---------------------------


# You should be using upstart to stop/start nginx like this:

start nginx
stop nginx


# if upstart does not work try to start nginx using service like this:

service nginx stop

service nginx start

# if none of the above works or you need to see more verbose error, manually type this:

/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf