[CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

On 12/17/10 9:30 AM, Cia Watson wrote:
> I've never actually configured php, I just install the files (including
> php-mbstring), and create a user for mysql and extract the Drupal files
> to the docroot and I'm good to go. If it's a high-traffic site others
> may have more specifics about php to add... for me the defaults have
> worked fine.  HTH.

drupal really hammers on your database too.  you need a well tuned and 
optimized mysql or postgres configuration to run it, and you likely want 
to use some form of SQL cache (memcached etc), since drupal will make 
the same queries over and over and over again.