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It works for phpBB 3.1.x, not just phpBB 3.1.6. For a national forum or global forum, it is a must to have a CDN support.

The way I used is not a formal extension or plugin. It is a hack, actually a dirty hack. If you have no experience for it, you can close this page now.

Now, let’s start.

1. Backup everything of your phpBB, include files and database.\
2. URL path example.
   Forum url is http://www.myforum.com/
   CDN url is http://myforum.kxcdn.com/
3.  Open /includes/functions.php
   add following in line 5112

   // Add CDN path
   $cdn_cache = '//myforum.kxcdn.com/';

   Find following around Line 5216

   'T_ASSETS_PATH'         => "{$web_path}assets",
   'T_THEME_PATH'         => "{$web_path}styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/theme',
   'T_TEMPLATE_PATH'      => "{$web_path}styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/template',
         

   Replace by

   'T_ASSETS_PATH'         => $cdn_cache."assets",
   'T_THEME_PATH'         => $cdn_cache."styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/theme',
   'T_TEMPLATE_PATH'      => $cdn_cache."styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/template',

   Find following around Line 5230

   'T_STYLESHEET_LINK'      => "{$web_path}styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . 'https://d22rw8pyewxbkl.cloudfront.net/theme/stylesheet.css' . $config['assets_version'],
   'T_STYLESHEET_LANG_LINK'    => "{$web_path}styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/theme/' . $user->lang_name . 'https://d22rw8pyewxbkl.cloudfront.net/stylesheet.css' . $config['assets_version'],

   Replace by

   'T_STYLESHEET_LINK'      => $cdn_cache."styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . 'https://d22rw8pyewxbkl.cloudfront.net/theme/stylesheet.css' . $config['assets_version'],
   'T_STYLESHEET_LANG_LINK'    => $cdn_cache."styles/" . rawurlencode($user->style['style_path']) . '/theme/' . $user->lang_name . 'https://d22rw8pyewxbkl.cloudfront.net/stylesheet.css' . $config['assets_version'],

   Save and overwrite the original file.

4.   Open /includes/functions_content.php
   Find following around Line 902

   return preg_replace('#<!\-\- s(.*?) \-\-><img src="\{SMILIES_PATH\}\/(.*?) \/><!\-\- s\1 \-\->#', '<img class="smilies" src="' . $root_path . $config['smilies_path'] . '/\2 />', $text);

   Replace by

   return preg_replace('#<!\-\- s(.*?) \-\-><img src="\{SMILIES_PATH\}\/(.*?) \/><!\-\- s\1 \-\->#', '<img class="smilies" src="' .'//forum.kxcdn.com/forum/'.$root_path. $config['smilies_path'] . '/\2 />', $text);

   Save and overwrite the old file.

5. Then purge cache in the ACP.

Look at the waterfall chat after this hack.

The CDN service provider is KEYCDN. You can apply through this link.