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I use "Rackspace Cloud Files" service as CDN, which provides a nice API for many CDN-related automation tasks.

How do I integrate Drupal with Rackspace Cloud Files without manually copying static files to the CDN?

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    "Your method must work with it.." Whose method? What method? This question has potential, but please improve and clarify it. See tinyurl.com/so-hints
    – Greg
    Commented Mar 7, 2011 at 0:14
  • @Greg Edited my question. Let me know if there's more confusion..
    – user931
    Commented Mar 7, 2011 at 11:09

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Easy

  1. Copy the static files to your CDN (Rackspace cloud files in this case)
  2. Install http://drupal.org/project/cdn (drupal 7 requires no core patch)
  3. Configure the CDN module

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You can automate the delivery of content files with the File Conveyor mode, this module integrates with the File Conveyor daemon. This allows for much more advanced setups: files can be processed (e.g. optimize images like smush.it, minify CSS with YUI Compressor, minify JS with YUI compressor or Google Closure Compiler, before they are synced and your CDN doesn't have to support Origin Pull, any push method is fine (supported transfer protocols: FTP, Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles). File Conveyor is flexible enough to be used with any CDN, thus it enables you to avoid vendor lock-in.

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  • Nice! But, isn't it a manual method as I need to copy static files manually..
    – user931
    Commented Mar 7, 2011 at 10:57
  • updated the answer to reflect the file conveyor daemon. This text is also on the drupal CDN module page ;)
    – wiifm
    Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 1:00
  • I've found that the whole system (web server) locks up when using the CDN module and File Conveyor when the site receives a lot of traffic. I'm wondering if there is a deadlock when the CDN module is accessing the File Conveyor PID or Synch database.
    – Allan Lykke Christensen
    Commented Jan 5, 2013 at 15:18
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Use the Cloud Files module. You can set the file system to Rackspace Cloud Files so that files uploaded to Drupal will be stored and delivered from Rackspace Cloud Files CDN directly (no copying).

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  • I found that the Cloud Files module didn't work well with Rackspace. I kept getting fatal PHP errors upon saving/updating nodes: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function public_uri() on a non-object in [SITE]/sites/all/modules/cloud_files/rackspacecloudfiles_streams.inc on line 160
    – Allan Lykke Christensen
    Commented Dec 22, 2012 at 23:41
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    did you make sure that you also installed the php library, like the readme file says?
    – user379468
    Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 15:45

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