Giving Drupal an Oil Change
Damien McKenna
Mc-Kenna.com & Bonnier Corporation
Twitter: DamienMcKenna
Well done!
- Project completed
- Looks & works great
- Client happy
- You're happy
Next?
- What now?
Three Steps
- Take a nap
- Backups
- Security check
Three Steps
- Without any further adieu...
Step #1: Zzzzzzz...
Step #2: Backups
- Backup_Migrate module
- Download, install, configure,
- Schedule
- & forget
Step #2.5: Zzzzzzz...?
Step #3: Security Checks
- Security Review module
- Written by Ben Jeavons aka coltrane
- Looks at site for common security gaps
Step #3: More Security Checks
- Go further if you can..
- Cracking Drupal book
- Written by Greg Knaddison aka greggles
- 200 pages of gold
Step #3.5: Zzzzzzz...?!?
What Next?
- Deployment
- Maintenance
- Learning more & contributing
Deployment Prep
- System Status Report page
- DBLog module
Deployment
- New sites/*/settings.php dir & file
- e.g. sites/www.example.com/settings.php
- Update the database settings
- Upload all files
- Database backup
- System Status Report page
Troubleshooting
- 404 error on paths you know exist?
- Does /user work, or /admin?
- Make sure ".htaccess" was uploaded
- Check logs
Maintenance - Cron
- "Chronograph", i.e. run scripts on a timer
- Daily, hourly, etc.
- Backups, search index, etc, etc
- Visit http://example.com/cron.php
- Configuration depends per webhost
Maintenance - Updates
- Core "Updates" module
- Settings
- Email notification
- How often
Maintenance - Updating
- Download file
- Remove old directory
- Extract new archive
- Run update.php
- Test
- Upload
- Run update.php
- Test
Getting More Help
- Mailing Lists
- Documentation
- Books
- Local user groups / meetings
- Drupal.org Forums
- IRC
- Twitter - #drupal tag
And Now..
- So lets get started...
Step #1
