Intro -- Drupal 6 Performance Tips -- Table of Contents -- Drupal 6 Performance Tips -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Upgrading Drupal -- Upgrading Drupal 5.x core -- Backing up your site and database -- Taking your site offline -- Running Status report -- Upgrading to 5.19 -- Installing the Update Status module -- Installing contributed module updates -- Uninstalling and removing Update Status -- Running cron and checking recent log entries -- Dealing with contributed modules during upgrades -- Backing up and exporting your Drupal 5.x Views -- Reviewing your Panels code -- Final prep for upgrading to 6.13 -- Disabling all contributed modules -- Enabling the Garland theme site-wide -- Downloading Drupal 6.13 -- Upgrading Drupal core -- Running update.php -- Upgrading contributed modules -- Updating your PHP memory limit -- Installing the updated Zen theme files -- Upgrading your custom theme -- Cleaning up and resetting Views -- Placing your site back online -- Summary -- 2. Maintaining your Drupal Site -- Checking your Drupal configuration status -- Checking your PHP and MySQL settings -- Files to delete and clean up -- Enabling the Update Status module -- Disabling unused modules and themes -- Introduction to Drupal caching -- Enabling and configuring Drupal caching -- Cache tables in your MySQL database -- Clearing your performance cache -- Clearing your theme registry -- Running cron manually -- Installing the Poormanscron module -- Setting up cron through cPanel -- Backing up your site using SFTP/FTP and cPanel -- Backing up your database through phpMyAdmin -- Tweaking your HTACCESS file -- Summary -- 3. Using Development Modules and Tools.

Viewing and inspecting recent log entries -- Viewing your recent log entries -- Logging and alerts configuration -- Page not found and access denied errors -- The Devel module -- Installing and enabling Devel -- Checking Devel module permissions -- Enabling Themer info -- Devel settings -- Inspecting database queries and Devel results -- Enabling the Devel module block -- Using the Devel module block -- Database queries -- Empty cache -- Disable/Enable Theme developer -- Execute PHP code -- Function reference -- Hook_elements() -- PHPinfo() -- Rebuild menus -- Reinstall modules -- Running cron -- Session viewer -- Theme registry -- Variable editor -- Summary -- 4. Performance Optimization -- Enabling and configuring the Throttle module -- Configuring the Throttle module for auto throttling features -- Throttling your modules -- Throttling blocks -- Generating test users, categories, and content -- Views caching -- Clearing your Views 2 module cache -- Using Panels caching -- Creating a panel and adding content to it -- Summary -- 5. Using DB Maintenance and Boost -- Using the DB Maintenance module -- Using the Boost module -- Installing and configuring Boost -- Boost settings -- Boost File Cache settings -- Boost cacheability settings -- Boost directories and file extensions -- HTACCESS file tweaks -- Testing your Boost configuration -- Boost and Poormanscron -- Configuring Poormanscron -- Clearing the Boost cache -- Boost admin and stats blocks -- Boost: Pages cache status block -- Boost: Pages cache configuration block -- Summary of Boost's basic configuration -- Summary -- 6. Advanced Boost -- Updating contributed modules -- Recommended modules that work with Boost -- Global Redirect -- Transliteration and Pathauto -- Advanced Boost settings -- Boost advanced settings -- Testing your Database timestamp settings -- Boost crawler settings -- Summary.

7. Using Memcache API and Integration -- Using the Memcache API and Integration module -- MoWeS Portable development WAMP server -- Installing Memcached libraries and service -- Integrating and testing Memcached with PHP 5.2.x -- Installing the Memcache API and Integration module -- Enabling the Memcache Admin module -- Memcache status -- Memcache statistics per page -- Viewing the Memcache tables in MySQL -- Running Memcache without saving cache data to your database -- Summary -- 8. Advanced Caching and Contributed Modules for Caching -- Cache Router -- Cache Router versus Memcache API -- Authenticated User Page Caching (Authcache) -- Tweaking your settings.php file to support Authcache -- Configuring the Authcache module -- Page Caching Settings -- Testing the Authcache module and its caching mechanism -- Checking the AuthcacheFooter code -- Checking the Authcache Debug window -- Advanced cache -- block_cache.patch -- comment_cache.patch -- forum_cache.patch -- node_cache.patch -- path_cache.patch -- search_cache.patch -- taxonomy_cache.patch -- APC (Alternative PHP cache) -- File Cache module -- Summary -- 9. Multisite Configuration and Performance -- Using Drupal multisite -- Configuring multisite in a localhost environment -- Creating the multisite folders -- Setting up databases for your multisite -- Tweaking settings.php for each site -- Editing your Apache configuration -- Tweaking the hosts driver file on Windows -- Tweaking the Base URL -- Loading your multisites -- Testing your multisite configuration -- Using core and contributed modules in multisite -- Installing modules and themes to a multisite -- Setting themes per multisite -- Caching and multisite -- Enabling page caching and CSS/JS optimization per site -- Multisite resources -- Summary -- Index.

Learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal framework using Drupal 6 best practice performance solutions and tools.

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