[development] Static Page Caching

[Jeremy Andrews]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:22:33 -0500
Moshe Weitzman <weitzman at tejasa.com> 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.

Okay, I have created a patch for the current CVS version of
Drupal: 
   http://drupal.org/node/45414

>From the issue summary:
  "This patch introduces an option for file-based caching.
   When enabled, a 'cache' subdirectory is created in the
   files/ directory, and cache data is written there. The best
   performance improvement will be seen when both the file
   cache is enabled and a minimum cache lifetime is set."

Discussion, testing, suggestions, improvements, benchmarking,
etc, all appreciated.

Cheers,
 -Jeremy

> 
> -moshe
> 
> Mike Gifford wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > We've worked with jpcache in the past to produce static
> > page caching for dynamic sites.  We'd like to see the
> > ability to create and edit pages with drupal that get
> > saved as good old fashioned html files.
> > 
> > Perhaps this would happen on a daily basis, perhaps only
> > under severe load, perhaps only for paths with a .html
> > extension, however not all drupal content needs to be
> > loaded from drupal all of the time. Throttle is nice.
> > The page caching is a good step in the right direction
> > too..  But I'd like to cache an entire page so that php
> > isn't even loaded at all to deliver the page.
> > 
> > So, I'd just like to know what attempts have been done to
> > do this in the past (if any), and what problems they had
> > (so that hopefully we don't repeat the same ones).
> > 
> > We've investigated this for other CMS's, but not for
> > Drupal.
> > 
> > Mike
> > -- 
> > Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting
> > Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca
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> > 
> > 
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