/clientscripts over to Amazon S3/Cloudfront?

[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

Everything... RRs, template edits, CSS edits, stylevars and manual database edits.... it is really a lot (a LOT) of unnecessary work to move content to a CDN with vBulletin. A few configuration variables (like vB does for YUI), and the vB would be CDN friendly. I worked my you-know-what off, and still think we are only 95 percent there.

That's one reason I went with the replacement variable option: I didn't want to invest a lot of work in something that we were only using on a trial basis, and be too difficult to undo if we decided not to go with the CDN after all. By doing a View Source on the vB pages, I could see all the rewritten URLs, and that is how I solved one of my problems (can't recall if it was clientscript, or CSS, or the avatars).

I agree about the amount of work: one of my wishlist features for vB would be configurable paths, which would apply to CDNs and/or hosting images on other servers. The other wishlist feature would be Sphinx search integration, but that's a whole different topic!