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[inkcarts]

I'm interested in giving maxcdn a shot, however I'm concerned with how it will handle the https in my shopping cart.

Anyone have a solution that will allow me to use maxcdn for the non-https, and serve from the main server for https?

Thanks In Advance!
Lyn

[Jon]

I've experimented with different configurations but this principle has proved the most effective:

Open smarty.php

FIND:

$smarty->assign("SkinDir",$xcart_web_dir."/skin1");
$smarty->assign("ImagesDir",$xcart_web_dir."/skin1/images");

REPLACE WITH:

// WCM - MaxCDN Implementation
if ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'on')
{
     $smarty->assign("SkinDir","http://CdnUrl.example.com/skin1");
     $smarty->assign("ImagesDir","http://CdnUrl.example.com/skin1/images");
}
else
{
     $smarty->assign("SkinDir",$xcart_web_dir."/skin1");
     $smarty->assign("ImagesDir",$xcart_web_dir."/skin1/images");
}
// WCM - MaxCDN Implementation

[inkcarts]

Thanks Jon. Does that cover CSS or JavaScript?
Lyn

[Jon]

Will cover css, javascript, images, and anything else called from the skin1 folder.

[inkcarts]

Awesome! Thank You!
Lyn

[Jon]

We've put this up as a tutorial at MaxCDN for X-Cart.

[inkcarts]

I must be reading this incorrectly, which wouldn't surprise me, but to me, it looks like that code says if https is on, then use max cdn, . . . . shouldn't it be the other way around? Or am I reading that wrong?

Thanks
Lyn

Edit: I must be reading it wrong, because i tried it as you posted, and obviously it works.

Thanks
Lyn

[joncampbell]

if ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'on')

!= means does not equal.

So if if https is not on it will use CDN, if https is on it will use default x-cart location.

[Mdennison]

Hi Guys,

What sort of results are you seeing from using a CDN?

Is it worth the additional costs?

How difficult was the deployment?

Thanks,

Matt

[Jon]

Deployment took a few hours. It did definitely help our speeds especially in foreign countries.