Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] CDN Origin setting doesn't modify permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] CDN Origin setting doesn't modify permalinks

 *  Resolved [Hubert Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hubertnguyen/)
 * (@hubertnguyen)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using W3TC to basically modify all my urls to be something like “www.mysite.
   com”, while the content is actually on “origin.mysite.com”. The CDN loads the
   content from origin and serves it on www.
 * It works well with the homepage, and I can access it via the “CDNed” name, but
   info retrived in the template via the_permalink() or get_bloginfo(‘url’) still
   use the origin site.
 * That said, the URLs for the theme have been replaced properly.
 * What can I do to get all the URLs to show up as [http://www.mysite.com/<something>?](http://www.mysite.com/<something>?)
   Also, is there a simpler way to perform this replacement and use W3TC only for
   the DB caching?
 * Thanks,

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725145)
 * Not sure I followed all of that. Can you please submit a bug submission form 
   from the support tab of the plugin? It will include a report that helps me troubleshoot.
 *  Thread Starter [Hubert Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hubertnguyen/)
 * (@hubertnguyen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725146)
 * Hi Frederick,
 * I’m not sure that this is a “bug”. I remember that a previous version of the 
   plug-in did modify the permalinks as well (can you confirm?). This might be a“
   missing feature” that I wish for. In any case, let me know and I can repro/submit/
   screenshot. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Hubert Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hubertnguyen/)
 * (@hubertnguyen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725147)
 * In short, I’d like to install wordpress on origin.mysite.com and have all the
   permalinks rewritten as:
 * [http://www.mysite.com/yyyymmdd/my-article/](http://www.mysite.com/yyyymmdd/my-article/)
 * instead of:
 * origin.mysite.com/yyyymmdd/my-article/
 * I thought that W3TC did it in the past.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725194)
 * I’m not understanding why you want to use W3TC in this way, so maybe that’s not
   confused. Can you explain the objectives in more detail?
 *  Thread Starter [Hubert Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hubertnguyen/)
 * (@hubertnguyen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725195)
 * I simply wanted to “CDN” the whole site, including the pages which are mainly
   static.
 * It looks like most people use [http://www.mysite.com](http://www.mysite.com) 
   as the origin domain, then “CDN” non-critical files like themes files, css, and
   js. It makes sense. I just wanted to do something different.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725199)
 * There is no benefit to doing something different unless there’s a specific problem
   you’re trying to solve. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Hubert Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hubertnguyen/)
 * (@hubertnguyen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-cdn-origin-setting-doesnt-modify-permalinks/#post-1725202)
 * Can’t argue against that, although being able to CDN the actual html pages, and
   the whole site in general was pretty cool. 🙂

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