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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

Chapter 6. Advanced Boost

In this chapter, we're going to continue to use the Boost module and look in detail at some of the module's advanced settings and its configuration.

By the end of this chapter you will know how to install, configure, and use the following contributed modules as well as how to use the advanced Boost functionality:

  • Global Redirect module and configuration

  • Transliteration module and configuration

  • Configuring advanced Boost cache settings

  • Using and configuring the Boost crawler

  • Knowing where to look for the Boost .htaccess settings if you need to tweak their configuration after enabling Boost crawler settings

Updating contributed modules

Before we start looking at Boost's advanced settings, let's run our Status report and check on our site's contributed module status. I have been noticing some warning messages appearing across the site notifying us that we need to upgrade the following contributed modules to their latest security patch releases. So now is a good time to do...