webp: NGINX WebP module
Installation
You can install this module in any RHEL-based distribution, including, but not limited to:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9
- CentOS 7, 8, 9
- AlmaLinux 8, 9
- Rocky Linux 8, 9
- Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023
yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install nginx-module-webp
dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
dnf -y install nginx-module-webp
Enable the module by adding the following at the top of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
load_module modules/ngx_http_webp_module.so;
This document describes nginx-module-webp v0.1.1.5 released on Dec 30 2019.
Webp is new (and smaller) image format. This module will convert jpg/png image on fly and send webp response.
Status
Under development. To be continued.
Configuration directives
webp
- syntax:
webp - context:
location
Enables or disables module.
Example
location ~ ".jpg" { webp; }
$ curl -SLIXGET -H "accept:image/webp" http://127.0.0.1/1.jpg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.13.12
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:16:45 GMT
Content-Length: 223980
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:16:45 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: image/webp
$ curl -SLIXGET -H "accept:image/*" http://127.0.0.1/1.jpg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.13.12
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:17:53 GMT
Content-Length: 325991
Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:55:14 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Notice
As webp convertion takes some CPU usage I recommend to use some kind of caching of nginx responses, like Varnish.
GitHub
You may find additional configuration tips and documentation for this module in the GitHub repository for nginx-module-webp.