Configuring external static resource caching

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 server. You can make this setting in the Admin Console.
Fastpath: Admin Console: System > Settings > Resource Caching

Configuring external CDN software to retrieve static resources

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:

  1. Set up your CDN, configuring it to be aware of your Jive server.
  2. Configure the resource caching feature with the CDN base URL where static resources can be found when requested.
  3. At run time, when building pages for a client, Jive rewrites static resource locations so that their URLs point to your CDN server.
  4. When completing the page request, the client uses the CDN URL to retrieve static resources.
  5. If the CDN server has the resource, it returns it; if not, it retrieves the resource from the Jive server, return it to the client, and cache it for future requests.

Configuring external static resource caching

To configure the feature,

  1. In the Admin Console, go to System > Settings > Resource Caching.
  2. Select the Enable external caching check box.
  3. Enter the CDN URL where static resources can be retrieved by clients, and save the settings.