How to Install Speedtest.net Server In CentOS 7

[jibinw]

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.[/li
  

Installation

Login to your CenOS 7
   
Install httpd package

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[root@localhost ~]# yum install httpd
Install php modules

[root@localhost ~]# 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

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[root@localhost ~]# unzip mini.zip
Go to the installed directory.

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[root@localhost ~]# cd mini/
Copy all contents to /var/www/html

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[root@localhost mini]# cp -rRfv mini /var/www/html/
Go to /var/www/html/mini and edit required settings

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[root@localhost mini]# cd /var/www/html/mini
Rename index-php.html to index.html

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

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[root@localhost mini]# systemctl start httpd
Browse for mini server.

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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

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[root@localhost ~]# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux.repo
Edit as follows:

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[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

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[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Install required package

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[root@localhost ~]#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