Textpattern Tips – Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by zero

Fri, 12 Nov 10 17:03:34 +0000

If you use Ruud’s rvm_css plugin (which uses a ‘css’ folder by default) you can do this:

In cPanel or whatever, create a subdomain called ‘style’.
In a terminal do this: ln -s /home/hostuser/public_html/mysite.com/css /home/hostuser/public_html/mysite.com/style

This creates a symbolic link from the style subdomain to the css folder. So you can use in your pages. This allows you to still edit your css in txp admin where it is automatically saved to the css folder as a static file, so saving some ftping.

(There may be variations in making the symbolic link depending on your host. For example it might be: ln -s /home/hostuser/mysite.com/public_html/css /home/hostuser/style.mysite.com/public_html/style or something)

You could also use a symbolic link from subdomain img.mysite.com to mysite.com/images and use the ihu thing in config.php instead of changing the DocumentRoot although I have no idea if this affects anything speedwise.

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by Phil Wareham

Sun, 14 Nov 10 07:59:53 +0000

Joebaich points out that you can also use the following method to restrict Google Analytics to your main domain…

['_setDomainName', 'none']

Useful if you use http://example.com as your domain name (instead of the www. prefix).

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by Stephan

Tue, 16 Nov 10 16:33:02 +0000

What exactly does ihu influence? Only files with a certain extension or from a specific directory? How can I include my CSS or Javascripts as well?

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by zero

Tue, 16 Nov 10 17:22:02 +0000

Stephan, there’s probably more to it, but if you look in txp 4.3.0 config.php, at the end, you will see it is for serving images

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by Petri

Tue, 23 Nov 10 23:37:37 +0000

Thanks for this TXP tips. This is very handy. I haven’t yet checked how much this will improve loading speed, but any increase in performance is good.

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Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by Jonathan Stubbs

Wed, 24 Nov 10 07:59:47 +0000

@Petri – thanks for letting me know about the URL not working. Fixed now.

Comment on Using TXP constants and subdomains to speed up your site rendering by Brian Katz

Fri, 18 Feb 11 19:42:28 +0000

Sorry! I need to be a little harsh/direct here …

I’ve seen a number of posts promoting this technique regarding Google Analytics cookies.

It’s dangerous.

The _setDomainName method is to configure the way Google Analytics functions – this is not a “pick a folder” type setting that merely informs GA where to write the cookies.

More GA problems relate to the (mis-)use of _setDomainName than any other.

See
Tips Tricks, Traps and Tools: # 3 of many: Quick Diagnostics

Search the page for “_setDomainName” to get right to the nub.

There are also other posts relating to that topic linked there.

Brian Katz – Analytics – VKI