Xenforo enabling CDN for static content and javascript - DONE

[Brett Peters]

I take it that it is just me not being able to upload thumbnails after the change then ?

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Using wordpad to edit and the path is

http://static.glorifythepast.com/static/js

Did you create a subdomain pointing to your main directory then added that line into your config,vstill tryin to get my head around this.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Right I'll be having a crack at this later, moved to cloud based hosting and want to optimise as much as possible.

I've got static.the-sps.org set up and pointing to my public

What URL would I stick in the style image path

Tried static.the-sps.org/styles/default and that doesn't work.

Um confused about serving up the js, where do I move the files to?

 

[Shamil]

Right I'll be having a crack at this later, moved to cloud based hosting and want to optimise as much as possible.

I've got static.the-sps.org set up and pointing to my public

What URL would I stick in the style image path

Tried static.the-sps.org/styles/default and that doesn't work.

Um confused about serving up the js, where do I move the files to?

Try to have 2 or 3 domains for static (js) - but take care that it means more DNS lookups - so I suggest using a fast DNS server, if you go down this route.

 

[Jaxel]

I'm still confused on how this stuff works... Lets say I add to my config...

$config['externalDataUrl'] = 'http://cdn.8wayrun.com/data';
$config['javaScriptUrl']  = 'http://cdn.8wayrun.com/js';

I understand that I simply upload my JS to the /js folder... but the /data folder isn't uploaded by me... its data generated by XenForo itself. How does XenForo know to put the files (attachments, avatars, etc) in cdn.8wayrun.com/data. In fact, how would it even do it at all? If the CDN is a different server, it needs login credentials and path information... which is not included here. So how does this work?

 

[Floris]

You can symlink them internally?
(thinking outloud)

 

[DRE]

I've only been a webmaster for a year now. No previous experience. Just learning as I go. This was one thing that had stumped me when I initially started using www.Cloudflare.com and running my vB4 site through www.webpagetest.org to see what I could do to speed it up. Several people have tried explaining how to set up a cookie-less domain using sub-domains to me before but it still confusing. It's relieving to see even coders getting a little stumped over cookies.

From what I can recall being told by various people, you can set up a cookie-less domain as a subdomain only if you installed your forum or site at http://www.yoursite.com instead of http://yoursite.com Then whenever you want to host static images, do it from a http://static.yoursite.com folder. Then point a CDN to that http://static.yoursite.com folder.

 

[HydraulicJack]

I'm wanting to add a second super admin to my config.php file.
Which Plain Text Encoding should I use? Unicode (UTF-16), Unicode (UTF-8), or ???
Thanks!

 

[Kier]

UTF-8.

 

[HydraulicJack]

UTF-8.

Thanks Kier, much obliged!

 

[Jaxel]

I'm still confused on how this stuff works... Lets say I add to my config...

$config['externalDataUrl'] = 'http://cdn.8wayrun.com/data';
$config['javaScriptUrl']  = 'http://cdn.8wayrun.com/js';

I understand that I simply upload my JS to the /js folder... but the /data folder isn't uploaded by me... its data generated by XenForo itself. How does XenForo know to put the files (attachments, avatars, etc) in cdn.8wayrun.com/data. In fact, how would it even do it at all? If the CDN is a different server, it needs login credentials and path information... which is not included here. So how does this work?

I believe my previous questions have still yet to be answered...

 

[ragtek]

floris answered this already

You can symlink them internally?
(thinking outloud)

symlinks, copying the files to the new server after the upload, etc
it's depending on your setup...

prof. way with real CDN services => eg http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.service.amazon.s3.html

 

[Brent W]

I believe my previous questions have still yet to be answered...

$config['externalDataPath']

Tells xenForo where to store the external data.

 

[robdog]

I believe my previous questions have still yet to be answered...

You should get a mirror CDN. So when someone requests a file from http://cdn.8wayrun.com/filename.jpg it will check the CDN first and if it doesn't exist it will download it from http://www.8wayrun.com/filename.jpg. With this setup, there is no need for login credentials.

I hope this is what you were even asking about, lol.

 

[DBA]

I believe my previous questions have still yet to be answered...

Like robdog said, get a CDN that "pulls" (mirrors). I use www.maxcdn.com.

Easy way:
Create a pull zone with the origin URL as www.8wayrun.com
Replace the main domain part (www.8wayrun.com) of all your static content URLs with the temporary URL they give you (cdn.8wayrun.netdna-cdn.com)

Better way:
Create a pull zone with the origin URL as www.8wayrun.com
Get a simple/small domain name (8wr.co) and create a few sub-domains a.8wr.co c.8wr.co i.8wr.co
CNAME all your new sub-domains to the temporary URL they gave you.


I have i.dba.co for all my images, a.dba.co for all attachments/avatars, c.dba.co for CSS/JS.