Understand CloudFront CDN Option

  • Resolved julianoduarte

    (@julianoduarte)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hello guys,

    I have had install W3TC and I’m using with AWS CloudFront.

    So, I configured the CDN Type like: Amazon CloudFront

    I would like know if the directories wp-content and wp-includes stay hosted on localhost and w3tc push it to CloudFormation. Because my created S3 Bucket is empty.

    Best Regards,
    Juliano

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello,
    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to help with this.
    We don’t remove any files from the server, we only make sure they are uploaded to the CDN and loaded from the CDN.
    If your S3 Bucket is empty this means that you have not configured something properly.
    Please check our FAQ for guidance and/or this article to help you understand how to configure Amazon Cloudfront properly with W3 Total Cache.

    Thread Starter julianoduarte

    (@julianoduarte)

    Hello Marko,

    Thanks your answer!

    So, I configured CDN again and it’s working like a charm.

    But I have a doubt…

    How does W3TC inform the CloudFormation when a post need to be invalidated?

    I want to understand this behavior to apply correctly in my client.

    Best Regards,
    Juliano

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @julianoduarte,

    In Performance>CDN, advanced sub-box there is an option “Only purge CDN manually” We built that option because of the problems with invalidation requests on CloudFront causing huge bills. If it’s enabled, you can click the purge CDN button in W3 Total Cache to send invalidation requests, otherwise, all changes will be detected automatically and an invalidation request will be sent immediately.
    I hope this helps.

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