Images hosted on subdomain

@bobby,

While I’m not going to argue the point on the concept of serving images, css, js from a sub-domain.

The reason for removing this support from Smush.it was effecting many other user who are using Content Delivery Networks (CDN). This issue was causing an issue in that Smush.it was run against the local copy of the image but the real image on the CDN was not updating. The Smush.it plugin does not have the ability to update remote images. Only those in the site’s wp-content/uploads folder.

Specific to your setup assume your home URL is https://www.website.com and you serve your images via https://images.website.com for your setup you may be simply pointing back to the same exact image. But the Smush.it plugin cannot determine this from the server. All it knows it the image has a different URL than the home URL. Sure, the Smush.it plugin could attempt to lookup the sub-domain to determine if it was the same IP address as the home URL. But this still does not tell the plugin it is the same exact image. The sub-domain could be pointing to a copy of the image in a different folder on the server.

Will continue to look into this and see if we can come up with a solution which will work for all configurations. Thanks.

The Smush.it plugin does not have the ability to update remote images. Only those in the site’s wp-content/uploads folder.

The images are in that exact folder, wp-content/uploads. The Full URL simply points to the subdomain when displaying images on the front end to the user.

@bobby,

I’m trying to get one of my development sites setup so I can see if there is a way to somehow use the local image. Can you provide some details on your sub-domain setup?

I have a subdomain setup in my cpanel. For example: https://images.website.com/ – the document root for this subdomain is: /public_html/website/dev/wp-content/uploads

I am using a plugin to bring back the original media path box in the Media Settings page, you can find this plugin here.

Then in that Media Settings page I have set the “Store uploads in this folder” to : “wp-content/uploads”

Then in the “Full URL path to files” I have my subdomain: “https://images.website.com”

Hope this helps.

@bobby,

Please update to WP Smush.it 1.6.5.4 which includes support for turning off the URL match logic. Check under Settings > Media you will see a new option under Smush.it to disable the URL check.

This fix does appear to have solved the issue so it can NOW be marked as resolved. However, I think this kind of setting should be able to be built in to be automatically detected.