Install Speedtest.net Server In CentOS 7

Introduction

Speedtest.net is very popular speed test tool to check test Internet Bandwidth. You can configure your own speedtest.net mini server to run Internet speed.It ping several websites via HTTP and calculate the response time and display results in GUI.

Requirements

CentOS 7
Apache and php packages.
Speedtest mini package.

Installation

Install httpd package

[root@localhost unixmen]# yum install httpd

Install php modules

[root@localhost unixmen]# yum install php php-mysql php-gd php-mcrypt

Download Speed.net mini server from following link

http://c.speedtest.net/mini/mini.zip

Unzip this package and copy contents to /var/www/html

[root@localhost unixmen]# unzip mini.zip

Go to the installed directory.

 [root@localhost unixmen]# cd mini/

Copy all contents to /var/www/html

[root@localhost mini]# cp -rRfv mini /var/www/html/

Go to /var/www/html/mini and edit required settings

[root@localhost mini]# cd /var/www/html/mini

Rename index-php.html to index.html

[root@localhost mini]# mv index-php.html index.html

Start httpd service

 [root@localhost mini]# systemctl start httpd

Browse for mini server.

http://127.0.0.1/mini

Important: There is possibility that Flash 8 is not installed by default , and it can show some error on browser. I got encountered with this problem. Here i will include flash installation step to complete speed test mini configuration.

Create YUM Repo for flash

[root@localhost unixmen]# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux.repo

Edit as follows:

[adobe-linux]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Update yum

[root@localhost unixmen]# yum update

Install required package

[root@localhost unixmen]#yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

It is recommended to reboot system after flash installation.

Open the browser and test your speedtest.net mini

Enjoy!!