{"id":6570,"date":"2023-07-14T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:46:39","slug":"litespeed-configuration-for-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/litespeed-configuration-for-joomla","title":{"rendered":"LiteSpeed configuration for Joomla!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LiteSpeed is a web server that is much more efficient than other technologies offered. Combined with the Redis cache engine, it offers the fastest client application performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To properly configure LiteSpeed for Joomla! it is necessary to activate Redis on the Smarthost server. We described this process in the previous post:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/how-to-activate-redis-on-smarthost-server\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to activate Redis on the Smarthost server?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LiteSpeed configuration for Joomla!\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step is to download the\u00a0<strong>LSCache Plugin<\/strong>. It can be downloaded from the official LiteSpeed website:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.litespeedtech.com\/products\/cache-plugins\/joomla-acceleration\/download\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the given page and click Download.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-1024x162.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-1024x162.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-300x47.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-768x121.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-520x82.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366-740x117.webp 740w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/366.webp 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Download again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-1024x249.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-1024x249.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-300x73.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-768x186.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-520x126.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369-740x180.webp 740w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/369.webp 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to Extensions -> Manage-> Install and installing the module in Joomla!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-1024x338.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6573\" width=\"840\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-1024x338.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-300x99.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-768x253.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-520x172.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370-740x244.webp 740w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/370.webp 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After installing the module, make sure that the\u00a0<strong>LSCache Plugin<\/strong>\u00a0is enabled by going to System -> Global Configuration -> LiteSpeed Cache\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-1024x521.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-1024x521.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-300x153.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-768x390.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-520x264.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368-740x376.webp 740w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/368.webp 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step is to go to System -> Global configuration -> System\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We choose <strong>Redis <\/strong>as the Cache Handler and fill in the Redis server host name, port and password. The given data can be checked from the cPanel in\u00a0<strong>Redis Server section.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/367.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/367.webp 521w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/367-300x291.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LiteSpeed configuration for Joomla! was finished. To check performance the browser Developer tool can be used. If everything has been properly configured and the module has been successfully connected to the Redis server, we should see the header &#8220;X-LiteSpeed-Cache: hit&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/371.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/371.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/371-300x60.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/371-520x104.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/371-740x147.webp 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LiteSpeed is a web server that is much more efficient than other technologies offered. Combined with the Redis cache engine, it offers the fastest client application performance. To properly configure LiteSpeed for Joomla! it is<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/litespeed-configuration-for-joomla\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,9,428],"tags":[1154,318,298,1155,300,951],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-joomla","category-litespeed-pl","tag-configuration","tag-cpanel-hr","tag-joomla-hr","tag-joomla-2","tag-litespeed-hr","tag-litespeed-cache-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}