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tammy harris Jul 26 '15

i am trying to server images from another domain to speed up page load times
i managed a long time ago to get it to server images from a subdomain

do anyone know what i need to change in the user files part of config file
to serve images from another domain

define('OW_DIR_USERFILES', OW_DIR_ROOT.'ow_userfiles'.DS);

define('OW_DIR_STATIC', OW_DIR_ROOT.'ow_static'.DS);

define('OW_URL_STATIC', OW_URL_HOME.'ow_static/');

define('OW_URL_USERFILES', OW_URL_HOME.'ow_userfiles/');

define('OW_DIR_PLUGINFILES', OW_DIR_ROOT.'ow_pluginfiles/');

The Forum post is edited by tammy harris Jul 26 '15

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ross Jul 27 '15

Do you want to take the userfiles from another domain only or save new ones there as well?

The Forum post is edited by ross Jul 27 '15

tammy harris Jul 27 '15

i want move the complete ow_pluginfiles/ folder to another domain

so take and save

it should give me a huge speed increase

Team

ross Jul 27 '15

This is considered as a very complicated code modification of the software. Why don't you use cloud services, we provide, like Amazon?

tammy harris Jul 27 '15

2 years ago i played with these 2 lines

define('OW_URL_USERFILES', OW_URL_HOME.'ow_userfiles/');
define('OW_DIR_USERFILES', OW_DIR_ROOT.'ow_userfiles'.DS);

and got images to be served from a subdomain and it worked fine to take and save
images and every thing from the ow_userfile folder
the site load times was cut in half
but when i went to ssl i did not have a wildcard ssl cert so subdomains are not covered by the ssl cert
and i reverted back to original config
its so dam long ago i can not remember how i done it and have spent hours trying to do it again

i have tryed cloud flare and tested it for a week with out use it index page load times
average 2 seconds

enable cloudflare set all the bells and whistles let it run for a week so it cache everything
then run test for a week on load times on index and rest site load times increased by average 2,5 times

so index load times 5 seconds

ketkew Jul 28 '15

Why not using symbolic links between 2 servers? (I suppose that your subdomain is on another server).. than you don't need to use SSL because the images are served via the protocol between the 2 servers (NFS for example..wich can also be secured)

tammy harris Jul 28 '15

Quote from undefined undefined

lol that went over my head

i have one dedicated server with 2 domains both have ssl
so i am try serve images to each domain from the other domain

tammy harris Jul 28 '15

ross another quote problem

ketkew Jul 28 '15

That you still can use symbolic links between 2 domains on the same server (without the SSL issue). Than no custom config have to be done in OW so far as I see..

The Forum post is edited by ketkew Jul 28 '15

tammy harris Jul 28 '15

il try google this
symbolic links between 2 domains on the same server
and see what i can work out

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Taissa Jul 28 '15

Tammy, we are aware of this issue. This has been discussed here: http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/39452?page=1.

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tammy harris Jul 28 '15

cool
taisa can you help whit my problem of server images from another domain

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ketkew Jul 28 '15

Here are some examples of the "ln" command (I suppose you use linux or bsd for hosting).
(go to point 2, en view:Create a symbolic link for a Directory)

The symbolic links on linux/bsd are like the same as "shortcuts" in windows..

The Forum post is edited by ketkew Jul 28 '15

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tammy harris Jul 28 '15

ohhhhhh that needs be done in the black screen of death

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ketkew Jul 28 '15

If you don't know how to handle, than death could be the right word :P (but you can't kill anything with the ln command..)

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tammy harris Jul 28 '15

im shore all i done before was like this
define('OW_URL_USERFILES', 'subdomain.siteurl.com/ow_userfiles/');
and moved ow_userfiles to the subdomain

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tammy harris Jul 28 '15

trust me i can kill it with hello command

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ketkew Jul 28 '15

LOL, and your are sure that you use the full path to your subdomain.siteurl.com/ow_userfiles/ ? (not using http nor https?)

so correct: /full/path/to/your/wwwdir/ow_userfiles ?

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tammy harris Jul 28 '15

yes i tryed all version
the only thing i can think of is try do it on subdomain again
as it maybe the server not letting between domains

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Team

Taissa Jul 29 '15

Tammy, the best solution is to work with Amazon S3 Storage Service. Please use this instruction for configuration: https://docs.oxwall.org/install:cloud_hosting:amazons3.

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