WP Engine setup instructions for Adaptive Images

  • ResolvedPlugin Author Takis Bouyouris

    (@nevma)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, everyone,

    I am writing this post as a short guide on how to get the Adaptive Images plugin to work in WP Engine.

    WP Engine is using a setup of their own, which utilises Nginx, Varnish and Apache, so it might seem a bit tricky to know which one server is doing exactly what at first. Once you get this straightened out things become quite simpler.

    1. Because they are not using Nginx as the main application server, but Nginx still serves the static content directly, one needs to ask them to add a code such as: 

    location ~ \.(jpe?g|gif|png) {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:6789; 
}

    This code will direct Nginx to not serve images directly, but pipe image requests back to Apache, which is the main application server.

    2. After the above is done, Nginx practically acts like a caching server for images and you need to enable the CDN support option in the plugin settings page.

    Hope this helps!

    Feel free to contact us here in the forum for anything that might come up.

    Cheers,
    Takis

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