[CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

Sat Dec 18 16:29:28 UTC 2010
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, John R Pierce wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
> Subject: Re: [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.

This is not FOSS stuff, but something like ioncube might 
help you speed things up.

http://www.ioncube.com/comments.php

HTH

Keith Roberts

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