• Hello,

    Simply Static is a great plugin.
    Based on my experience, I’m posting a little feedback.

    mod_pagespeed is an apache module made by google to optimize a website. When it is installed, it rewrites by default all the vhosts websites resources.
    It can for example rewrite image for better compression from image.jpg to image.jpg.pagespeed-random.webp

    These images are cached locally on the server but not in the www directory. The images are displayed with a “trap” mechanism on the module. And this trap can have a side effect.

    On my website, simply static did fail creating the website because the html was the one containing rewritten image and the copy didn’t contain them.
    I forgot that mod_pagespeed was installed on this server and had to investigate.

    Disabling mod_pagespeed on the specific vhost (in .htaccess modPagespeed Off) did solve the problem.

    To save the time I lost for other users, I suggest to add on the diagnostic page a test to see if mod_pagespeed is activated or issue a warning when image containing “pagespeed” in the path cannot be copied.

    best regards,
    Vincent

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