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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


In this chapter, we installed and configured Drupal multisite in order to run multiple Drupal websites from the same core codebase, utilize contributed modules per multisite, and integrate with databases per site. We also discussed performance monitoring and caching in the Drupal multisite environment. You have successfully completed the following steps to configuring and setting up a Drupal multisite for fast performance:

  • Installed Drupal multisite on Windows in a localhost development environment

  • Set up multiple databases to support each site in our multisite

  • Tweaked the settings.php file for each site in our multisite

  • Edited the Apache configuration file to support VirtualHosts

  • Tweaked the Windows hosts drivers to support our multiple sites and domain URLs

  • Enabled modules and themes in each multisite site

  • Discussed caching in a multisite environment

  • Looked at multisite Drupal resources on drupal.org

You have successfully completed the Drupal 6 Performance Tips book and learned a wealth...