Rewrite rules link goes nowhere

  • Resolved Valar Morghulis

    (@valar-morghulis)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hello.
    When clicking on “You can use the rewrite rules below to serve WebP images with Apache.” it goes nowhere.

    Basically, I want to serve WebP files, and I want a fall-back in-case the user isn’t using Chromium/Opera. I found that converting everything to WebP made images not work on FireFox. So I want to double-triple make sure I can get it on a fall-back mode.

    And naturally, I cannot use .htaccess as I use a CDN ??

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Plugin Author nosilver4u

    (@nosilver4u)

    The link is simply supposed to take you further down the page, to where the rewrite rules are displayed.

    However, you’ve already stated that you use a CDN, so you can’t use them anyway. Both the rewrite rules and the Alt WebP rewrites work with browser detection. However, when you employ a CDN, it breaks the fallback for the rewrite rules, which is why we introduced the Alt method to work around the CDN issues.

    There’s a video on the Installation page that goes into a bit more detail about how the WebP functions work.

    Thread Starter Valar Morghulis

    (@valar-morghulis)

    I don’t quite understand it anyway.
    I did watch it.

    Essentially – seeing as I’m using a CDN (local copies) if I use the Alternative WebP Rewriting it will have a fallback?

    Edit: just did a test, doesn’t seem to have a fallback. Shame.

    Plugin Author nosilver4u

    (@nosilver4u)

    Yes, it detects the browser support via javascript and then loads the appropriate image.

    Make sure you’ve removed the EWWW IO rules from your .htaccess file(s) and flush the cache with your CDN, otherwise your CDN will still be serving .webp images in place of the originals from your testing with the .htaccess rewrite rules.

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