Ghost with custom CDN is possible?

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Just wanted to jump in here to update on this.

I have followed @skyeto’s blog post to set up BunnyCDN with a Ghost site and the actual caching worked out of the box. What didn’t work was accessing the /ghost route to edit the site and logging in to the portal as a member.

My assumption is that BunnyCDN has changed since June 2021/2022, so here’s what ended up working for me, in case anyone stumbles upon this thread in the future (just adding differences to the original post):

Edge Rules
To successfully bypass all API requests (relevant for the admin panel to work properly) you need to set “Cache Time” and “Browser Cache Time” to 0 for the following routes:

  • */ghost*
  • */members*

Caching settings that need adjustment
In the “General” caching settings:

  • “Query String Sort” needs to be off. This is necessary for the members login to the portal to work
  • “Strip Response Cookies” also needs to be off. Otherwise you won’t be able to log into the /ghost route, meaning you can’t edit your site.

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

Edit: just put the findings into a blog post to go into a bit more details:

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