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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


Congratulations! You have successfully upgraded your Drupal site. Here's a brief recap of what you did in this chapter:

  • After backing up your site and database, taking your site offline and running Status report, you upgraded your Drupal core code to Drupal 5.19.

  • You installed the Drupal Update Status module and later removed the module so that it would not cause conflicts during the 6.x upgrade.

  • You upgraded all of your 5.x versions of contributed modules—a very important step prior to the upgrade to Drupal 6.x.

  • You backed up your Views by exporting their code.

  • You prepped for the Drupal 6.x upgrade by disabling all contributed modules and enabling the default Drupal Garland theme.

  • You upgraded the Drupal core code to 6.13 and ran update.php to update the entire Drupal database schema, thereby confirming that your MySQL database tables were updated.

  • You made your first major performance tweak to your server and site by raising the PHP memory_limit settings to 96M—this setting needs to be larger to run Drupal 6.x and all of the contributed modules you have.

At this point you can bring your site back online using the site maintenance configuration. We'll see you back here for more performance tips in Chapter 2, including how to manage the Drupal cache system, clear the theme registry, and tweak your PHP settings.