If you're using a lightweight content delivery network (CDN), you can configure the
community to tell clients to retrieve static resources from your CDN server. This
improves performance by reducing load on the Jive SBS server. You can
make this setting in the admin console.
Admin Console: System > Settings >
Resource Caching
This feature assumes that you've set up and configured your CDN software to retrieve
static resources from the application server when necessary. Here are the basic
steps:
- Set up your CDN, configuring it to be aware of your Jive SBS server.
- Configure the resource caching feature with the CDN base URL where static
resources can be found when requested.
- At run time, when building pages for a client, Jive SBS will
rewrite static resource locations so that their URLs point to your CDN server.
- When completing the page request, the client will use the CDN URL to retrieve
static resources.
- If the CDN server has the resource, it will return it; if not, it will retrieve
the resource from the Jive SBS server,
return it to the client, and cache it for future requests.
To configure the feature, go to the Resource Caching Settings page and select the
Enable external caching... check box. Enter the CDN URL where static
resources can be retrieved by clients.