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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

Checking your PHP and MySQL settings


You can also access your PHP and MySQL configuration settings via the Drupal Status report. For PHP it's as simple as clicking on the PHP version number, which is hyperlinked in your Status report. The same goes for your MySQL version and settings.

Clicking on the PHP version link loads a php.info file that resides in your site. This will give you all of your PHP core configuration settings and all of the PHP extensions you have loaded and enabled on your server. It's good to review this file for the following information that you'll need as you troubleshoot performance.

The location of your loaded php.ini configuration file: It's good to know where the default php.ini file is located on your web server. You can overwrite this configuration with a custom php.ini file or with custom PHP setting code that you load into either your settings.php and/or .htaccess file. However, there may be times when you need to edit the original default php.ini file as long...