Discourse

Speed up your Discourse forum with bunny.net CDN for faster page loads and improved performance.

Discourse has built-in CDN support. This guide walks you through pointing it at Bunny CDN.

1. Create a Pull Zone

   Log in to your bunny.net dashboard and open the Add Pull Zone page. Choose a name for your zone, then set the origin URL to your Discourse forum (for example, discourse.example.com).

   

   Select a pricing tier and click Add Pull Zone. For more detail, see How to create your first Pull Zone.

2. Configure Discourse with your Pull Zone

   Open your app.yml configuration file and find the following lines:

   ## the origin pull CDN address for this Discourse instance
   DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://discourse-cdn.example.com
   

   If they aren’t present, add them below the other DISCOURSE_ variables. Replace the DISCOURSE_CDN_URL value with your Pull Zone hostname.

   
3. Rebuild the Discourse container

   Apply the new configuration by rebuilding the container:

   ./launcher rebuild app
   

   Once the rebuild finishes, your forum is served through Bunny CDN. To confirm everything is working, see Verify your configuration.