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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

Checking your Drupal configuration status


Now that you have successfully upgraded to Drupal 6.13, you can run your Status report to check on the status of your configuration file and other site components such as the PHP and MySQL versions; GD library version, memory_limit, and whether or not your modules are updated. Status report will give you the most up-to-date checklist on the general performance of your site. When we run Status report we find out the following:

  • Our update.php file is protected. The permissions on this file are 644, meaning that read permissions are granted to user, group, and world, while write and execute permissions are enabled only for the users of the file.

  • CTool CSS Cache is in use and exists. This is the CSS cache for the CTools module that is used in conjunction with Panels.

  • Our main site settings.php file is protected. This has the same permissions level as the update.php file: read-only permissions.

It's important to emphasize here that your settings.php configuration...