http://netvouz.com/falko/tag/drupal?feed=rss falko's bookmarks tagged "drupal" on Netvouz http://www.howtoforge.com/drupal-6-hosting-with-nginx-and-php-fastcgi-on-ubuntu-9.10 Drupal is a great CMS but is a bit hefty when you host it on bargain-basement shared hosting, and virtual private servers are great but memory-constrained at the low-end. Apache can be a big offender when it comes to resource usage, so a nice alternative is nginx, a fast, light-weight and efficient http server that supports PHP via PHP-FastCGI. So this is a pretty slick setup for hosting Drupal, and I've taken a few different howtos and forum posts to put together this guide, which should have all you need in one stop, including a working URL rewrite config. falko Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:42:11 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-speed-up-drupal-7.7-with-boost-and-nginx-debian-squeeze This tutorial shows how you can speed up your Drupal 7.7 installation on a LAMP stack (Debian Squeeze) with the help of Boost and nginx. Boost provides static page caching for Drupal enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic. Boost makes sure that your logged-in users always get fresh content by not caching pages for logged-in users. In a first step I will show how to make your site faster by enabling Boost on a normal LAMP stack (Apache2, PHP, MySQL), and in a second step I explain how to make your site even faster by using nginx as a reverse proxy sitting in front of Apache and delivering the static HTML pages cached by Boost. nginx delivers static files a lot of faster than Apache and us falko Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:28:51 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-drupal-6.4-on-a-lighttpd-webserver-debian-etch This guide explains how you can install Drupal 6.4 on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. Drupal comes with an .htaccess file with mod_rewrite rules (for Apache) that do not work on lighttpd. Without this .htaccess file it is not possible to have clean URLs in your Drupal installation. Fortunately there is a way to make lighttpd behave as if it could read the .htaccess file. falko Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:23:23 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/multisite_drupal_installation_ubuntu This howto shows you how to do a multi-site Drupal install on Ubuntu. It also covers how to layout your directories for ease of maintenance, and how to ensure that you can update Drupal easily from CVS. falko Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:53:51 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/running-drupal-7.7-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.04 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Drupal 7.7 web site on Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 with nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). In addition to that I will also show you how you can use the Drupal Boost plugin with nginx. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. falko Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:35:39 GMT