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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

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 that. The modules we're going to upgrade are:

  • Devel module (upgrade to 6.x-1.18 )

  • FileField (upgrade to 6.x-3.2 )

Download the updates from the modules' project page at http://drupal.org/, extract them locally on your desktop, and then upload the modules to your /sites/all/modules folder. You'll be asked to replace the existing files. Click on Yes to this and then browse to your Status report page once you have completed the copy of the module files. You should notice that your Update Notifications are enabled and in green mode showing that everything on your site module-wise has been updated. We are ready to move on.