Does Plesk support BROTLI compression for Apache or Nginx web server?

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  Torsten Bulk September 25, 2019 07:50

  Brodle is a must! I'm betting on Plesk to support it.

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  Kingsley Felix October 15, 2019 19:58

  Since you know the importance of this feature, why do we still have to vote for it?

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  Ivan Postnikov October 16, 2019 13:01

  Hello @Kingsley Felix,

  More popular feature is, the higher priority of adding this feature will be for the development team. 

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  Anthony Forshaw March 06, 2020 15:48

  Voting for Brotli compression also!  It should be more popular :)

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  SamParis March 29, 2020 02:47

  Voting for Brotli too!

  Is there any way to install by CLI ?
  I found one for PHP, one for Apache and one for NGINX.

  If yes, which one will work for PHP-FPM?

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  Francisco Roman Garcia Rodriguez April 01, 2020 16:46

  Hello GetPageSpeed,

  Thanks for providing these instructions.

  Anyway, mind that in case of problems with Brotli module (or such configuration), we won't be supporting it until we officially provide it ourselves.

   

  DaliAbassi, please check out the previous message from GetPageSpeed.

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  SamParis April 03, 2020 00:25

  Thank you Francisco Garcia for your answer, but I'm using Ubuntu and the package from GetPageSpeed is for Centos/RHEL.

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  Christoph Flathmann April 27, 2020 08:56 (Edited June 08, 2020 12:27)

  You can compile a dynamic module yourself. As a temporary solution:

  Updated: added missing Step 9. (Run configure in ginx source directory)

  Best way is to run the steps below on your server. (Please keep a backup of your server or at least of your nginx config directory)
  You will not replace your nginx binary, this will just compile the ngx_brotli modul.
  If something goes wrong just delete the files that loads the module (Step 11. and 12.) or use backup config.

  Also Remember that you would have to rebuild this module once Plesk updates it's nginx server. 
  
  if nginx configure or make modules fail install missing libraries or take a look at https://talk.plesk.com/threads/how-to-compile-nginx-with-additional-modules-pagespeed-cache_purge-headers-more-and-others.340640/
  apt-get build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev unzip

  1. Get your nginx Version (nginx -v).
     Output should be something like this nginx version: nginx/1.16.1
  2. Download the source of your version.
     wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.16.1.tar.gz
  3. Extract the downloaded source:
     tar -xzvf nginx-1.16.1.tar.gz
  4. Get ngx_brotli:
     git clone https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli.git && cd ngx_brotli
     git submodule update --init --recursive
  5. run nginx -V to get your build variables. copy this to txt file or ceate a bash script.
  6. Add the path where your ngx_brotli folder is (Step 4.)
     --add-dynamic-module=/root/addons/nginx/modules/ngx_brotli
  7. remove following lines:
     --add-dynamic-module=mod_pagespeed
     --with-openssl=lib_openssl from your variables
     --add-dynamic-module=mod_passenger/src/nginx_module
  8. cd into your nginx source directory
  9. run ./configure with the variables from text file or via a bash script (Example https://gist.github.com/Chrissi2812/be8d22459a87b004ef6ab096533e7b34)
  10. run make modules this will create the modules in the objs directory
  11. copy ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so and ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so from the objs directory
      to your nginx modules directory (/usr/share/nginx/modules)
  12. Create a new conf file to load the dynamic modules
      nano /etc/nginx/modules.conf.d/brotli.conf 
      With follwing content:
      load_module nginx/modules/ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so;
      load_module nginx/modules/ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so;
  13. create /etc/nginx/conf.d/brotli.conf with follwing content (example taken from https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli#sample-configuration)
      brotli on;
      brotli_comp_level 6;
      brotli_static on;
      brotli_types application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/rss+xml
      application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-opentype application/x-font-truetype
      application/x-font-ttf application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/xml
      font/eot font/opentype font/otf font/truetype image/svg+xml image/vnd.microsoft.icon
      image/x-icon image/x-win-bitmap text/css text/javascript text/plain text/xml;
  14. run nginx -t to verify the configuration
  15. run service nginx restart

  Now all static files should be served via brotli. Proxied requests don't seem to work.
  
  Maybe plesk could ad the dynamic compiled modules, just like pagespeed and passenger??

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  Bragi Austfjord May 31, 2020 14:23

  I don't get it.

  Could you explain this better "Add the path where of your ngx_brotli install"

  where? remove following lines:

  Please explain this better.

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  Bragi Austfjord May 31, 2020 22:39

  Newer mind I found this.

   

  https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx/how-to-install-brotli-nginx-module-in-plesk-for-centos-rhel#comment-830

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  Leonid Gukhman June 02, 2020 06:00

  Bragi Austfjord

  Thank you for sharing this solution! It might be useful for other Pleskians, too.

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  Sage Pointer June 05, 2020 00:21

  Thank you Christoph Flathmann
  
  To me, on step 7 i also needed to remove these lines:
  --with-http_ssl_module
  --with-http_v2_module
  Maybe it's because i compiled on the another machine, not on the prod server, but in the end everything worked without any problems

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