nginx-pagespeed VS nginx-autoinstall

I’m unreasonably proud of setting up automated patching for NGINX to include PageSpeed: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

The whole project is basically just a ‘sed’ command, but piecing everything together (where to get the source code, how to build nginx, make Debian packages, publish packages, etc) was a major effort.

I found myself in the valley between people who didn’t know and had no means of learning, and those who knew and for whom it was obvious. I’ve learned a lot.

Shameless plug: https://www.bbss.dev/posts/pagespeed/

GitHub repository with sources here: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

I recently returned to those notes to entirely automate the process using GitHub Actions. The work is open-source and available on GitHub.

Surprisingly few people seem to have heard of modpagespeed which I think can be attributed to an absence of packages coupled with the difficulty of installation.

I knew I had to build something like this the day GitHub actions came out, but haven't gotten around to it until the holidays!

While this HN thread is quite old now, it still provides some context on what it's all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018861

GitHub repository with sources here: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

I found a patch online for that and forked the original script to automatically apply it and now you can use this script even for the lastest nginx to support http3 until nginx-quic will actually have a normal release so you can use it. The link for my fork is here: https://github.com/bastakka/nginx-autoinstall. You can use this script to just update your nginx as it will not overwrite your .confs.