rewrite rule to send all static content to CDN?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Joe Shang wrote:

> With Apache we can do this using:
> 
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CDN_USER_AGENT$   [NC]
> RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|gif|png|flv|css|js|swf)$
> http://cdn-domain-name/$0   [R=301,L]
> 
> But we want our CDN to serve our static content, what would be easier
> to accomplish this?
> 
> I tried:
> 
> rewrite ^/*\.(jpg|gif|png|flv|css|js|swf)$
> http://http.cdnlayer.com/contentfolder$1 last;
> 
> But it didn't work.
> 
> Should I be using a location instead?
> 
>         location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
>               access_log        off;
>             expires           30d;
>         }
> 
> Like the above ones? but how would the rewrite portion come into play?

    location ~* ^.+.(jpe?g|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
        rewrite  ^  http://http.cdnlayer.com/contentfolder$request_uri?
                 permanent;
        access_log        off;
    }


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