Magento 1.x – ImageEngine

Setting up ImageEngine in Magento is a simple process. We will outline the basic steps required to get started. This article applies only for configuring Magento 1.x to work utilize ImageEngine for Magento 2.x please see our article Magento 2.x.

To implement ImageEngine’s image optimization for Magento 1.x, you will first need to sign up for an ImageEngine account, if you do not already have one. During the signup process, you’ll be asked for the website domain where you intend to use ImageEngine and origin URL for the majority of the images. For more information about signing up, please refer to this article: Getting Started: Signup.

Once signed up, you will be issued a unique delivery address following this pattern: “aabbcc.cdn.imgeng.in.” Custom delivery addresses may also be made after the initial signup process is complete. For more information, see our article here: https://imageengine.io/docs/implementation/domain-name.

Take note of your delivery address, as we will be needing it in the next step.

Change Magento Base Media URLs

Login to your Magento Backend
In the top navigation bar, select System > Configuration
In the menu on the left, select General > Web
Open the Secure and Unsecure sections from the dropdown
Now set the Base Media URL and Base Media URL (Secure) from {{unsecure_base_url}}media/ and {{secure_base_url}}media/ to the Delivery Address of your ImageEngine account.

For example, replace: {{unsecure_base_url}}media/ with the example delivery address shown above: https://aabbcc.cdn.imgeng.in
When finished, make sure to click on Save Config
After setting your Base URL you should flush your Magento caches by going to System > Cache Management and click Flush Cache Storage

Note:

There are other methods for accessing the Magento base media settings. The example above is provided as one of the simplest methods.