Is it possible to use AWS Beanstalk's .ebextensions config to install mod_pagespeed Apache module?

Question

I\'m using AWS Beanstalk for my Django/Python application, and I would like to use Google\'s mod_pagespeed module. Is it possible to install and run mod_pagespeed using the

Answer 1

You can install packages by URL. So you don't have to download and distribute the RPM. Something like this works:

packages:
    rpm:
        pagespeed: https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
files:
    "/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzzz-pagespeed-options.conf":
        mode: "00644"
        owner: root
        group: root
        encoding: plain
        content: |
            # put your pagespeed configuration here

Note that I titled the file zzzz-pagespeed-options.conf so that the httpd server will load it last.

Another advantage of this is you really don't need include any commands whatsoever or worry about copying files over and maintaining the files in your .ebextensions folder. You just update the files entry in the .config file.