Enabling RSAWEB CDN for Wordpress on your current website

It's all about Speed... A slow site translates into unhappy users. Your users want a great experience. One of these components is a fast experience. Enabling the RSAWEB CDN for Wordpress will speed up your website and it's pretty easy to implement.

We've made a few assumptions:

1. You have Wordpress installed and running properly with your existing Wordpress website
2. A stable theme, plugins and custom code. This is hard to evaluate but you can always disable it if it doesn't work.
3. You aren't running any other Wordpress caching software, disable it in the plugins section if you are.

Notice: We've assumed a few things about the way you have installed Wordpress. This tutorial should work with most Wordpress installations, however we offer no guarantee that it will work with yours.

Getting started:

1. Login to your account on http://www.MyRSAWEB.co.za
2. Navigate to the "CDN" menu item.
3. Order the package you feel is appropriate following the on screen instructions.

Setting up Wordpress:

4. Login to your admin panel http://yoursite/wp-admin
5. Go to the 'Plugins' section in the menu
6. Click on 'Add new' under the Plugins menu item
7. Search for 'W3 Total Cache' and click 'Install Now' (If your Wordpress has permissions, the plugin will auto-install)
8. Click 'Activate'
9. Find the 'CDN' section halfway down the page. Check the CDN 'Enable' box, then select the 'CDN Type' as 'Generic Mirror' and click 'Save all settings'
10. Check that your website is still operational, if not, disable the CDN.
11. Then click 'CDN' along the top of the page
1. Under configuration, enter the CNAME you chose above when you ordered the RSAWEB CDN service.
2. Click 'Save all settings'
3. Under 'Advanced', add any directories you have static content in.
12. That should be it!

Verifying its working:

Go to your website. Right click and 'View Source' on the page. You should see links that used to look like:

<img src="/menu/images/menu_cloud_on.png" alt="Cloud Servers"/>

To this:

<img src="http://media.rsaweb.co.za/menu/images/menu_cloud_on.png" alt="Cloud Servers"/>

This means this image is loading through the CDN now.

You can add more directories to the CDN by adding the directories under the "Custom file list:" in the CDN->Advanced section.

Well done! You've managed to setup your CDN service.

You can keep track of your CDN Stats in MyRSAWEB and let us know if you have any questions.