Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Amazon Cloudfront   Minify problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Amazon Cloudfront Minify problems

 *  [ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/)
 * (@ctimmermans)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/)
 * I successfully set up my blog to work with W3 Total Cache and Amazon Cloudfront
   combined with several CNAMES makes live easy and cheap!
 * However, now I noticed that the minified file in all of this is not being downloaded
   from the CDN.
 * Here are some of the relevant settings:
 * CHECKED Rewrite URL structure
    If disabled, CSS and JS embeddings will use GET
   variables instead of “fancy” links.
 * CHECKED Automatically upload modified files
    If CDN is enabled (and not using
   the origin pull method), your minified files will be automatically uploaded.
 * CHECKED Host minified CSS and JS files
    If checked, minified CSS and JS files
   will be hosted with the CDN.
 * CUSTOM FILE LIST
    images/* favicon.ico wp-content/gallery/* wp-content/uploads/*
   wp-content/plugins/*.js wp-content/plugins/*.css
 * So in essence: The minifying works fine (locally) the CDN works like a blast.
   However, the minified files don’t get loaded of off CloudFront, so they don’t
   seem to work together.
 * What is a possible problem here?

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 *  [smoochyTweet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoochytweet/)
 * (@smoochytweet)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760066)
 * check the uplaod failed list. could be same prob i’ve had.
 * I clear that list if anything inside.
 * then go remove all caches, it gets fixed for me.
 *  Thread Starter [ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/)
 * (@ctimmermans)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760072)
 * I’ll try it. I just removed everything in my CDN.
 * Now I’m re-uploading everything. Then I’ll check if there’s something in the 
   failed list.
 * Then I’ll remove caches, and see if it works.
 * Thanks for your reply.
 *  Thread Starter [ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/)
 * (@ctimmermans)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760073)
 * I get object already exists errors on the minified files?
 * How should I go about this?
 *  Thread Starter [ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/)
 * (@ctimmermans)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760105)
 * I don’t no how, but now it works :S. Thanks SmoochyTweet!
 *  [sahaskatta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahaskatta/)
 * (@sahaskatta)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760134)
 * [@ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/),
 * Could you do a test for me? I may have the same issue you are facing and your
   fix may not have necessarily worked.
 * Try creating a new article and uploading a new image to it. Once complete, hit
   publish. (You can just upload and embed an image into an older article for testing
   as well.) When complete, go to that article in another browser. Is the link to
   the image file coming from your CDN link as expected?
 * If I think you are having the same problem, it could be that new content you 
   upload/publish won’t use the CDN until you repeat that clear list + clear cache
   process each and every time.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [ctimmermans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctimmermans/)
 * (@ctimmermans)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760136)
 * Well, the CDN works great! However, the problem was only with the combination
   of minification.. nothing else.
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760417)
 * So everything is ok now?

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 * [cdn](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cdn/)
 * [CloudFront](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cloudfront/)

 * 7 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-amazon-cloudfront-minify-problems/#post-1760417)
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