Category Archives: Drupal

Apache proxy, cache, and web service optimization

At UPEI our web pages are powered by an open-source web platform Drupal but served as static pages that are mirrored (in our terminology, scraped) by httrack to a front-end server. Most components of web pages are static except emergency messages, contact forms, and some bits of media files. All external access goes to the [...]

Use Nginx to run your Drupal site

Type: Tutorial Difficulty: Intermediate I have a fresh website based on Apache+PHP5 to be converted into Nginx and PHP5-FastCGI. What can I do? Stage 1 CGI version of PHP5 Nginx only supports CGI version of PHP5 (not the Apache module). In FastCGI mode, PHP5 runs like a server that forks out a number of children [...]

A Mobile Website in Drupal

How can you set up a website for mobile browsers in five hours? First, we have websites that have RSS output, such as UPEI‘s website, so you can use Drupal to aggregate news and information from them. The mobile version should not generate content, but it serves only as an aggregator. Drupal’s cron job will [...]

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