[development] Static Page Caching

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Mike Gifford wrote:

> On 9-Jan-06, at 4:22 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
>
>> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jeremy/ 
>> filecache/?hideattic=0
>> would be great if you reimplemented this in modern drupal and  
>> submitted for core review.
>
>
> Like many enhancements to Drupal, having them would be great.   
> However, I would really like to know if this is seen as a general  
> need in this community or not.
>

When Jeremy produced his patch, it was felt that this would not be the 
case. However, nowadays there are many more high profile sites and I 
think a patch like this would help them.

> I know it could go a long ways to reducing server loads, but would  
> people use it?  More importantly, would there be enough people  
> interested in this to develop a reverse bounty to see that it gets  
> implemented properly?
>
> I'm not sure at this point that I've got the client base to fund all  
> of this development internally.  We're building some requirements  
> now, so will have a better sense of it fairly soon.
>
> Pages like this are very useful:
>     http://drupal.org/node/2601
>
> But it still isn't going to give you the snappy response that you'd  
> get from a drupal page that has been cached as a static html page.  A  
> program like jpcache (http://www.jpcache.com/), would be a bit slower  
> than a static page because apache would have to load php, and then  
> load the cached file (from a file or db), however it would still use  
> a fraction of the resources that a drupal site would.
>
> The only reference to jpcache in drupal.org is:
>     http://drupal.org/node/12169
>
> There are a lot of issues to be considered with static page caching  
> and I'm not sure how (or if) it is possible to accommodate multi-site  
> installs.  Having a few folks contributing ideas, concerns,  
> limitations would be great.
>

I think that multi-site installs would probably be possible. I also 
think that you could maybe use htaccess to direct the user to a static 
file if it exists and to Drupal otherwise.
Ie you'd have a directory /node and then there are cache files in it.

The main problem I see are access permissions. If you have a purely 
public site, those would not be a problem.

>
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>
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Cheers,
    Gerhard