Speed up Apache 2.4 on CentOS8

Introduction

We will go through the basic steps of speeding up your site running Apache 2.4 on a CentOS 8 server

Setup

yum install httpd

Now add cache settngs to your global config

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Note

Add to the bottom of the file

#Set caching on image files for 11 months
<filesMatch "\.(ico|json|gif|jpg|png|txt|html)$">
  SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 11 month"
  Header append Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(css|js)$">
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 week"
  Header append Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>

Now restart apache to apply the settings

systemctl restart httpd

Test

Go to the site below and check your sites speed:

Note

https://pagespeed.web.dev