How-To Set up your CDN

Hello,

I still can't get cms attachments to work with CDN... I tried all the mentioned method (I think).

Edit: It 's working now. Problem was with custom CDN attachments path.

Did anyone succeed with Albums?

Hello,
It's work only with one subdomain .With multiple sub-domains, The images and avaters not appear even with exceptions in htaccess file.
Does it need any advanced settings in custom folders box?
My forum is in sub-directory http://krwetatnt.net/vb/
Also i think there's a problem with Internet Explorer when trying to update settings unlike google chrome.
Thanks alot for this useful article.

Did you check the checkboxes next to each subdomain in the vbseoCP to enable it?

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

You shouldn't make any subdomains. You should make CNAMES point to the CDN url. Please-re-read those steps above.

Stupid question by a newbie: I´m on a shared hosting. Do i understand right, that i don´t have to register a subdomain (like cdn.mydomain.de) on my hoster?
Greetings, Peter

It really depends on your control panel setup.

a CNAME makes the same style sub.site.com url, but its NOT a subdomain--- it's a 'pointer' to a real url, in our case, the CDN url.

Brian, FYI just a heads up for users if they choose a separate domain from their main forum domain for CDN CNAME.

Came across this issue last year with vB forum and cdn.

Problem

The problem is when users use browsers with noscript/domain blockers - they may have allowed forum main domain, but automatically blocked the seperate domain from loading. Thus stylesheet/images and javascript functions may seem broken to members.

Solution

Announcing/create forum notice and note in welcome emails to let members know to allow the separate domain through their noscript blockers would help.

For this reason for newer sites of mine, i tend to use same domain for subdomain CNAMEs at the expense of cookies remaining, site speed isn't affected as much if you have other page speed optimisations in place.

Great to see maxcdn being used as i've been using them since last year

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

It really depends on your control panel setup.

a CNAME makes the same style sub.site.com url, but its NOT a subdomain--- it's a 'pointer' to a real url, in our case, the CDN url.

Thanks Brian
At first, the hole thing didn´t work for me without a "real" subdomain (like cdn.mydomain.de). Now it does! The problem was this and maybe it could help some others: I´m on a german hoster called all-inkl.com. I did anything you wrote in your first post, the problem was the cName-thing. For the name, i only have to insert cdn, not cdn.mydomain.de, the record entry would be the same, as you described. With that, i think it works.
I´ll do some tests now and come back with a result
Thanks for this thread and your very good work and, not to forget, the great support!!
Greetings,
Peter

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Did you check the checkboxes next to each subdomain in the vbseoCP to enable it?

Yes i did

I have the CDN enabled and working but currently only for images, but it's only doing some of the images, not all of them.

For example: the buttons in the postbit footer (report/ip/etc) are not being served from the CDN.

Any ideas why?

I noticed that too. Even here on vbseo.com not all images are served by the CDN, e.g. all statusicons or buttons etc. I couldn't figure out why only a few images from the folder 'images' are served and not all, there doesn't seem to be a logical explanation, but maybe someone here know more.

Btw: my questions above are still unanswered ;-)...

Originally Posted by ceho

I noticed that too. Even here on vbseo.com not all images are served by the CDN, e.g. all statusicons or buttons etc. I couldn't figure out why only a few images from the folder 'images' are served and not all, there doesn't seem to be a logical explanation, but maybe someone here know more.

Btw: my questions above are still unanswered ;-)...

I cured mine with a custom hook in css.php to change the urls in the css files, I've since stored the css as files after changing all the stylevars to reflect the cdn url. Seems to be working okay now.

I would love to get attachments in there though, it needs a plugin to only change the avatar url in areas viewable by unregistered users, in other areas they will have to be served locally.

see the "limitations" section. It's not 100% perfect yet. This is our first iteration of a product of this scale and will improve with each release.

Originally Posted by ceho

I did. Didn't solve the issues. Whatever I try, the Javascrip/CSS doesn't work, it's always causing the problem with the wrong font color in the editors. Any more ideas what I could do? Or should I really file a ticket with all access data?

I have the exact same problem....

As I asked this before: wouldn't all images and images in subfolders supposed to be delivered by the CDN? All images from my custom style are not delivered although they're stored within the images main folder. The only difference I can see from any other folders in the images folder is that it's name is starting with a capital letter. Could that be the reason that the CDN doesn't accept this folder?

I noticed the same for some of my style images as well but I discovered that images defined in the css files will not be delivered through the CDN if javascript/css is disabled in the MaxCDN Integration in VBSEO (due to the problems mentioned above)..

Originally Posted by -RL-

I noticed the same for some of my style images as well but I discovered that images defined in the css files will not be delivered through the CDN if javascript/css is disabled in the MaxCDN Integration in VBSEO (due to the problems mentioned above)..

I can add that the Replacement Rules for the MaxCDN integration doesn't seem to translate/replace absolute URLs in the templates, but the replacement worked when I changed the "bugged" img URLs to relative URLs.

Originally Posted by ceho

I noticed that too. Even here on vbseo.com not all images are served by the CDN, e.g. all statusicons or buttons etc. I couldn't figure out why only a few images from the folder 'images' are served and not all, there doesn't seem to be a logical explanation, but maybe someone here know more.

Btw: my questions above are still unanswered ;-)...

For me - adding the following custom rule fixed it:

'/images/'=>'http://yourcdn.com/imagesfolder/'