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Having an .htaccess file is a pain regarding performances. Apache needs to read it on every single request (the page, every image, CSS files, JS files, etc.).

It is strongly recommended to move rules defined in Drupal .htaccess file in your Apache global configuration or in your vhost configuration file. This way all rules are only loaded 1 time, during Apache start.

To achieve this, just copy/paste your .htaccess content in your Apache server configuration file and don't forget to surround it by the directory where your Drupal install resides.

Note that we added AllowOverride None to prevent Drupal .htaccess to be read by Apache.

Check for syntaxe error:

$ apachectl configtest

And restart Apache:

$ apachectl restart

Note that if you are on Plesk, you must use the following command before restarting Apache:

$ /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=example.com

Drupal comes with a set of TXT files at root level (things like install instructions, upgrade instructions, etc.). To avoid malicious users to have information on the Drupal version you are using, it is strongly recommended to remove those files.

From the root directory of your installation, remove the following files:

• CHANGELOG.txt
• COPYRIGHT.txt
• INSTALL.mysql.txt
• INSTALL.pgsql.txt
• INSTALL.txt
• LICENSE.txt
• MAINTAINERS.txt
• UPGRADE.txt

Whether or not these files contains security information (like Drupal version for example), the all contain a CVS header that gives a really precise version information on your Drupal installation.

Cron is a deamon which triggers certain actions (cron jobs) at configured times. Windows has an equivalent system called Task Scheduler. Calling cron.php at regular intervals will allow, amongst others, the indexation of content the content and to check for updates.

Setting up a cron job under a *nix system is fairly easy.

1. Create or edit a crontab by typing in a terminal crontab -e
2. Assuming that you have one of the following programs on your system, add one of the following line to trigger a request to cron.php every hour:
   • 0 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 http://example.com/cron.php
   • 0 * * * *  /usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/cron.php
   • 0 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http://example.com/cron.php
3. Save and exit your editor.

Setting up cron jobs on Windows is almost as easy! See Resources below.

Drupal logs information about cron jobs. Once you have configured it, you should see entries in your logs (Administer > Reports > Status report and Administer > Reports > Recent log entries) indicating the status of the related tasks.

There are some conventions when using contributed modules and/or themes. Most users would want to place them in modules and themes folders.

Don't ever do that! Never place modules or themes in these directories!

Everything added to a fresh Drupal install should go somewhere in the sites directory:

• Contributed modules (from drupal.org) should go in sites/all/modules/contrib
• Project custom modules should go in sites/all/modules/custom
• Contributed themes (from drupal.org) should go in sites/all/themes/contrib
• Project custom themes should go in sites/all/themes/custom

Note that if you have a multisite environment, you could place somes of the modules/themes:

• in sites/default/..
• or sites/example.com/..
• or sites/anotherdomain.com/..
• and so on..

... depending on your configuration.

Note that using a contrib and custom directory convention will help you find out which modules are contributed by the drupal community and which you have developped specifically for the website.

This will allow you to update more easily your websites as the only directory you will need to preserve will be sites/*.

Use full PHP tags

Write:

Don't write:

Semicolons
Write:

Don't write:

No closing tags
When writing a module or customizing your theme template.php, don't use PHP closing tag ?>.

Notice that at the bottom of the following snippet, there is no PHP closing:

By doing this you prevent PHP interpreter to stop and restart on the next source code file. This mean better performance.

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By default Drupal front page lists all nodes promoted to front page. We will often want the front page to display something different (a View, a panel, a node, etc.). To do so:

• Go to Administer > Site configuration > Site Information
• Set Default front page to the path of your View, Panel, node or anything.
• Save your settings

Note that the default value for Default front page is node.

install.php file should be removed before going live.

It is located in the root of the installation: ./install.php.

It is strongly recommended that you put your site off-line before performing any module/theme updates.

• Go to Administer > Site configuration > Site maintenance
• Set Site status to Off-line
• Save your settings
• Make a backup of your database and file structure
• Upload new files to your server
• As user 1, run http://www.example.com/update.php
• Be sure to check that everything works fine after the update process
• Go to Administer > Site configuration > Site maintenance
• Set Site status to Online
• Save your settings