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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

Enabling the Update Status module


Remember that when we ran our Drupal 5.x site, we had to install the contributed Update Status module in order to get status notifications on our site's modules. This module now comes packaged with Drupal 6.13 core. So all we need to do is enable it. We see the module is currently disabled by checking our Status report and viewing the notification that the module is disabled:

  1. 1. Visit your modules admin page here: http://variantcube.com/fire/admin/build/modules

  2. 2. Under your Core-optional module list, look for Update status and check the box next to the module to enable it. Save configuration.

Revisit your Status report and you should receive new notifications of modules or themes that need updating. Update Status will flag two types of updates in its notification system. The first type of update will be shown marked with a yellow background in your Available updates table. Yellow flagged updates are recommended version upgrades. These are usually new versions...