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Hosting Static Files in CDN

Frontend static resource (.js, .css files) are in web/build/static/. If you want to deploy it in a CDN service of a public cloud, Casdoor provides a script for you to deploy frontend static files easily. Please follow the steps below.

note

We assume you have already built the frontend code of Casdoor. If not yet, please follow: document.

Preparation​

First, you need to create a valid Storage Provider in Casdoor UI. you can refer to the example.

caution

When you fill in the field Domain, please end with '/' storage_domian

Usage​

The script is at deployment/deploy_test.go.

In deploy_test.go, you need to modify the parameter id in GetProvider(). The format of provider id is <owner>/<name>

func TestDeployStaticFiles(t *testing.T) {
    provider := object.GetProvider("admin/provider_storage_aliyun_oss")
    deployStaticFiles(provider)
}

Then use the following commands to run the script:

cd deployment
go test

If the execution succeeds, you will see:

PASS
ok      github.com/casdoor/casdoor/deployment   2.951s

How it works​

The script will:

  • It will upload all the files in folders: css/ and js/ to the CDN service pointed by the storage provider.
  • Replace all the URLs of .css and .js files in the web/build/index.html with the URLs hosted in the CDN.

You still need to keep the index.html. After the static files are uploaded to CDN, index.html will still be requested by users through Casdoor Go backend, and those static files in the CDN are then requested through the URLs in index.html.