Hi. I have setup a discourse version v2.3.0.beta2 installation on AWS. This attachment shows how I have it deployed. I’m using the official docker image installation on each instance of the auto scaling group [diagram] I have 2 CloudFront distributions One ( cdn.civicxclub.com ) pointing to the …

Please read our CDN guide: [image] Enable a CDN for your Discourse Self-Hosting So you’d like to use a CDN to speed up worldwide access to common assets on your Discourse forum? You might want to go all-in and Set up file and image uploads to S3 (see also Configure an S3 …

You’re doing it wrong! You need to split the container into Data and Web or you can use RDS for Postgresql to host data and load-balance among the web containers. Also, It is not recommended to use cloudflare optimizations as they cause many issues. [image] soke: DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://ci…

I deploy the web only container on the EC2 servers. The database is outside, on an RDS instance, as well as the Redis. [image] itsbhanusharma: And You need to set up your cloudfront URL in the discourse CDN field not the name of the server. I have a CloudFront for uploads (the setting is on …

[image] soke: DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://civicxclub.com DISCOURSE_CDN_URL should be different from the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME. Use a dedicated URL for the CDN. Also, in our experience making all traffic go into the cloudfront tunnel increases the latency.

[image] itsbhanusharma: Also, It is not recommended to use cloudflare optimizations as they cause many issues. Nobody said anything about cloudflare. Read more closely?

Maybe I mis-read title as cloudflare.

[image] Falco: DISCOURSE_CDN_URL should be different from the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME. Use a dedicated URL for the CDN How can I then serve avatars, css and js files from this CDN if they are stored on the server?? I’ve tried to use the cdn.civicxclub.com url which is mapping to the S3 bucket and…

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