<p>Not really Craft related, but: for this to work in Craft, you should first make sure Rackspace recognizes the url you want to use. They explain how to do this <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/using-cnames-with-cloud-files-containers" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>

<p>In short: create a CNAME record for your domain, pointing to your Rackspace domain. After doing that, change the display url for your asset source.</p>

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<p>Assuming that you're using Craft Pro, is it possible to change the URL from the long randomly generated character string to something more user friendly?</p>

<p>Currently: <a href="http://83af0ee9e3c8cba9844f-a33048c0ede2332addff32deec6d7158.r40.cf3.rackcdn.com/subFolder/randomImage.png" rel="nofollow">http://83af0ee9e3c8cba9844f-a33048c0ede2332addff32deec6d7158.r40.cf3.rackcdn.com/subFolder/randomImage.png</a></p>

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Can you change the URL for Assets uploaded to a Rackspace CDN?
# Can you change the URL for Assets uploaded to a Rackspace CDN?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-12)

Assuming that you're using Craft Pro, is it possible to change the URL from the long randomly generated character string to something more user friendly?

Currently: <http://83af0ee9e3c8cba9844f-a33048c0ede2332addff32deec6d7158.r40.cf3.rackcdn.com/subFolder/randomImage.png>

**Tags:** assets

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-12. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Not really Craft related, but: for this to work in Craft, you should first make sure Rackspace recognizes the url you want to use. They explain how to do this [here](http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/using-cnames-with-cloud-files-containers).

In short: create a CNAME record for your domain, pointing to your Rackspace domain. After doing that, change the display url for your asset source.


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