MULTIPLE cookieless domains (speed improvement)

[LuisManson]

Since vbulletin uses a LOT of images plus CSS and JS i decided to separate all of them into cookie less domains

First of all on admincp set cookies only for your forum MAIN domain (ie www.mysite.com) not .mysite.com

DNS:
First of all i created some subdomains
static.mysite.com
static2.mysite.com
staticcss.mysite.com
staticjs.mysite.com

all of them pointing to the same server

Web server:
i created a new vhost:


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Filesystem:
My vb site is in: /usr/local/www/web_mysite_com
and the static content is in: /usr/local/www/estaticos_mysite_com
inside this new vhost directory i also made two aliases (because of my permissions)

clientscript -> ../web_mysite_com/clientscript
images -> ../web_mysite_com/images

* given my permission direct access to this shite would give you a forbidden, maybe you could create an empty index file

htaccess:
i have a redirect for my domain so now i had to make a few changes to:


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plugin:
go to your admincp and create a new plugin in global_complete hook


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*original code from here: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1910781&postcount=13

images:
Go yo "templates and styles"
choose your style and then in Style Vars filter by imgdir
replace those PATHs with new-hostname/ + original path
IE: images/buttons -> http://static2.mysite.com/images/buttons


NOTE: because a bug in vb code here you can make a real mess, check this report first:
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-7479
* Long story short:
a solution that worked for me was from David Grove:

The "fixes" described in the above comments are incorrect. To patch this issue, until v4.0.5 comes out, please edit line 489 of /admincp/stylevar.php, and change TYPE_ARRAY_ARRAY to TYPE_ARRAY.

So lines 485 through 491 should be changed from this:



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To this:



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This is of course, not the complete fix, but it will allow editing stylevars to work until v4.0.5 is released.


and you are done, now your site should be a bit faster

[lazydesis]

Thanks .. very nice article

does this work for vb3.8? or is it only for vb4?

[klaus]

If your htaccess goal is to simply force a www you can simplify it to:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

It will now allow anyhost.mysite.com but when its just mysite.com without a subdomain or host it 301's to tripleW.

2lines vs. 6 lines

[Sayid]

Useful article and it will improve page rank when I use firebug add-on in FF
Thanks and subscribed to this.

[tech4c]

Demo if you can !

Regards,

[LuisManson]

thanks all,
Sayid, how could this improve pagerank?
klaus: you are right, im not sure why i did it this way
lazyindian: it should work :)

[Shabcool]

thanks

[as7apcool]

thanks 4 useful topic

[sivaganeshk]

should I paste this code ? where ? or is this commands?

[TheLastSuperman]

should I paste this code ? where ? or is this commands?

Which code are you referring to? Basically the codes listed above need to be added to files, you edit, add the code then save and check to ensure the changes are present and you setup everything properly.

[Post Reader]

i am wondering if i can know about the vhost creation