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 thebase_url
path designation, and you learned how to tweak PHP settings in yoursettings.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 yourcron
.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...