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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 9. Multisite Configuration and Performance

In this final chapter, we are going to set up and configure a Drupal multisite environment on our localhost development server. The benefits to running a multisite installation include allowing multisites to share one Drupal database and core module configuration, or to share a core module configuration and allow each site to have its own database. We will also look at how multisite installations can help to boost performance for your overall Drupal configuration and help to increase performance on your server whether it be a shared or dedicated server environment.

By the end of this chapter you will know how to install and configure a Drupal multisite including the following configuration steps:

  • Creating multisite folders and settings.php files

  • Allowing each multisite to talk to its own MySQL database

  • Configuring your HTTPD configuration file (httpd.conf) to support Virtual Hosts

  • Tweaking the Windows system driver for Hosts

  • Using caching in a...