Drupal 5.x

In fall 2011, the web infrastructure team in IT Services made some changes to how virtual host (vhost) proxies are handled. Previously, all proxies were on a dedicated pool of proxy servers (proxy1.stanford.edu, proxy2.stanford.edu, proxy3.stanford.edu). This configuration required the use of the Reverse Proxy module. The infrastructure team is in the process of moving all existing proxies onto the www servers themselves.

Overview

Boost "provides static page caching for Drupal enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic". With the move of proxies to the WWW servers (January 2012), it is possible to install and configure it in the Stanford Leland web environment.

These instructions describe how to set up a development copy of your live Drupal site within the Stanford web environment.

ApacheBench (ab) is "a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server." It is built in to most current versions of Mac OS X and Linux. It's a quick way of sending multiple requests to a website and timing how long they take.

Basic Test

At its most basic, ab can perform successive and/or concurrent load tests on a webpage. Run the following command in the Terminal (Mac OS X; if you don't have OS X, ab is installed on the corn cluster machines):

jump to:

Note that this error only occurs on Leland servers, since the retirement of pubsw.

If you get an error like this when running any drush command:

php: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Take a look at your ~/.cshrc file. In it, you will see a few lines like the following:

If you have a website at https://ponies.stanford.edu that is pointing to a Drupal install at https://www.stanford.edu/group/ponies/cgi-bin/drupal, and you want to force loading through the Vanity URL only (and avoid the broken CSS and links kerfuffle), you will need to modify the .htaccess file at the root of your drupal install, and add the following code right after the line that starts with RewriteBase.

Summary

This module provides URL rewrites for integrating Drupal with a Reverse Proxy service. It was developed by the Stanford University Open Source Lab for integrating with the Virtual Host Proxy Service provided by Stanford University ITS (aka, "Vanity URL").

When public method (default) is used in file system, you cannot upload files and do not see images via WYSIWYG editor (e.g. TinyMCE) with IMCE module to upload images

Fix: (per email from mrmarco )

In the .htaccess file within your file upload directory (e.g., sites/default/files/.htaccess, sites/files/.htaccess or files/.htaccess), comment out the lines:

What Is Drush?

Drush (a portmanteau of Drupal Shell) is a Linux application that allows you to perform many common tasks (such as installing and updating modules, clearing caches, viewing and deleting watchdog messages, etc.) from the command line. It's a handy tool, especially if you maintain a lot of Drupal sites.