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ServerPilot Pagespeed Message History

To enable Message History in Pagespeed on a server managed with ServerPilot – useful if you need to diagnose if there are any problems. You need to create a global level config file – adding it for a particular vhost isn’t good enough.

Create a file pagespeed.conf in /etc/nginx-sp/http.d

pagespeed on;
pagespeed MessageBufferSize 100000;
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/cache/pagespeed;
pagespeed Statistics on;
pagespeed StatisticsLogging on;
pagespeed LogDir /var/log/pagespeed;

Create the folder to hold the logs at:

mkdir /var/log/pagespeed;
chmod 755 /var/log/pagespeed;
chown www-data /var/log/pagespeed

This enables Pagespeed for all the sites on the server so if there are any that shouldn’t be using it, you’ll need to add pagespeed off; to a config file in that particular vhost folder.

WordPress WooCommerce SagePay mcrypt

WordPress WooCommerce SagePay Form extension https://woocommerce.com/products/sage-pay-form/ requires the PHP mcrypt extension to operate.

If your site uses this extension and one day stops going through the full checkout process be aware of the following:

mcrypt has been deprecated as of PHP 7.1.0 and will be moved to PECL as of PHP 7.2.0 – this is because it relies upon libmcrypt which is dead and unmaintained since 2007 http://php.net/manual/en/intro.mcrypt.php.

Your host may have disabled the mcrypt extension.

I’ve heard that the WooCommerce SagePay Form extension is currently being updated to use openssl_encrypt so there may be an update soon to rectify this.