There is a public-facing LDAP server from which you can pull general directory information from without authentication. This server is only accessible from servers and workstations located on one of the Georgia Tech campus subnets.
Use the default settings, unless otherwise stated beow:
Besides performance modules, there are several other methods for increasing the performance of your Drupal site.
Only enable these modules while actively developing, and then turn them off the rest of the time.
Unless you manually configure Drupal cron to be run by your web hosting server, it will be automatically run when someone visits a page on your Drupal site after a certain amount of time has passed. This method works perfectly fine, but can slow down the display of the page the user requested since the cron run will block page generation until it has finished. This becomes more noticeable on site visited less frequently as more tasks can accumulate that need to be executed during a cron run.
A number of performance settings are recommended to cache Drupal data objects and speed up your site.
These settings can be enabled in Drupal 7 via the administrative control panel under Configuration -> Development -> Performance
If you have enabled CAS authentication to help keep your site secure, but have a limited number of non-GT users who need access to certain protected features of your Drupal site, you can create guest GT Account Usernames for them.
If you have to perform module updates on your Drupal site, then Drush is the way to go. Drush will help you to update all modules on your site(s) quickly and painlessly.
Drush has many commands and options. These commands need to be run from the directory where the settings.php file for your site is, i.e.
/path/to/drupal/sites/default
Drush (Drupal Shell) is a great Drupal "module" to accomplish many administrative tasks via the command-line. It is not a module in the normal sense, because it's not enabled/disabled from the Drupal admin. Instead, it actually lives anywhere on your local system and is run like any other local executable. Here are some of its key features from the Drush Drupal.org page:
A few core drush features:
If your site has Revisioning installed and turned on (a standard feature for Drupal Express sites), then the following concepts will apply:
This section documents ways that you can optimize your Drupal site for better performance.
This section is for tips and tricks to help automate your Drupal site maintenance tasks, specifically using the Drush command line interface. Also covered is the use of version control systems like GitHub.
