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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! Here's a recap of what you accomplised in this chapter and why it's important:

  • You reviewed your main settings.php file in detail and made tweaks to the base_url path designation, and you learned how to tweak PHP settings in your settings.php file and your .htaccess file.

  • You reviewed your contributed modules and themes and deleted any of these that you no longer needed enabled, and also deleted any files in your Drupal directory that you no longer needed on your production site.

  • You enabled the Drupal 6.x Update Status module that is now part of core Drupal.

  • You learned how to run your cron tasks through the Drupal admin and cPanel, and you installed and configured the Poormanscron module to set up and configure your cron.

  • You received an introduction to Drupal caching and learned where cached data is stored and why it's stored in your Drupal database. You learned how to maintain this cached data, and how to clear it and enable it.

  • You learned the best practice methods...