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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

Files to delete and clean up


Your Status report tells you that your update.php file is protected. This is good as you do not want anyone to launch your Drupal site and try running update.php to update your database schema. You only want to do this as a super user admin. Another tip is to delete your install.php file from your Drupal site. You do not need to keep the install.php file on your production site. Removing it is a good precaution and the added benefit is that no unauthorized site user can try and run your install.php file. To do this:

  1. 1. SFTP into your site or access through cPanel.

  2. 2. Copy a backup of your install.php to your local backup folder so that you have it if you need it later.

  3. 3. Select your install.php file and delete it.

This would also be a good time to review your site's /sites/modules and /sites/themes folders, and make sure you do not have any residual files or tar.gz files remaining post upgrade. If you do, you can safely remove them from your site. You do not want...