/clientscripts over to Amazon S3/Cloudfront?

[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

OK, I see, you are 301'ing your entire image directory :-)

That explains how you get the customavatars in the CDN. I searched the templates and the phases and could never find how to set a CDN URL for avatars (and a few other hard coded image paths).

At first I was editing the templates, but then when I wanted to try getting /clientscript over to the CDN, I discovered replacement variables. From that point on, I went in and changed my templates back to their original directories, then redirected the entire /images directory to CDN using the replacement variables. That also solved the issue with avatars. (My "recipe" is in that thread linked above, but I could repost it here. It was just a handful of entries in replacement variables.)

I have not attempted attachments, though, as we don't have a direct URL that we access them with. (They are stored in the filesystem, however.) I'm sure there's something in vB's code I could modify to retrieve images from the CDN, but since we're just doing this on a trial basis, I'm not that motivated yet.

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I don't understand why Jelsoft hard coded the customavatar domain as the forum domain and made it necessary to 301 those over to a CDN

I think I asked that very question on vb.com when I was looking for a way to change the avatar directory, and came up empty. And I think someone from vB's staff pointed me to the replacement variables which, at that point, I had no clue as to what they did, or how they worked. Had I known...