CloudFront in front of live WordPress
CDN Scenario 1 — origin is your public site, S3 stays off.
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This is the “WordPress stays online, pictures get a faster front door” story. No bucket. No laptop origin. CloudFront fetches from the site you already pay for.
What this video covers
- When to keep WordPress online (forms, search, admin)
- CloudFront origin = public site URL, not localhost
- Rewrite media (optional CSS/JS), leave S3 off
- Save CDN Settings, Full Rebuild, inspect
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Key takeaways
This is not the local-laptop workflow. Use it when the WordPress host stays public and you want faster media at the edge. Your laptop is not an AWS region.
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