Trying To Understand Prestashop With Cdn

[ianditch]

PrestaShop version 1.6.1.4

Current theme in use default-bootstrap

 

 

I've downloaded Prestashop to try and all looks good but i cant get the cdn working...

 

For testing purposes, I have a subdomain which i have routed via 1and1's cdn (which uses cloudflare). I have uploaded all images, products & the default theme into this subdomain and pointed the prestashop media servers to this subdomain.

 

As i have ftp'd / uploaded my theme and the default product images into this sub domain, they show as expected at CDN.mysite.co.uk

 

My problem is that prestashop seems to create a cached copy of css and js files and saves them into the 'themes/default-bootstrap/cache/' folder and not into the subdomain. On page load, the browser is pointing to 'CDN.website/themes/default-bootstrap/cache/' but these files do not exist in the subdomain and thus, no style sheets or javascript are loaded.

 

How do i get prestashop to save these files into the subdomain???

 

 

[ianditch]

Right, i've been playing around with this and have created a function on the media.php file to copy the .css & .js files into the subdomain folder if these files do not already exist.

 

Doing this seems to be working well and has massively improved page load speeds, pagespeed score (90%) and Yslow score (97%) on GTmatrix. 

 

Other than the slightly slower server response if these files need to be copied and the future update issues, does anybody see any problems with taking this approach?