Administering a Drupal site

Getting started with Drupal administration

This section is an introduction to site administration for new Drupal users.

Managing content

This sections provides a basic introduction on how to manage content in Drupal.

Multilingual guide

Multilingual guide for Drupal 8 or higher.

• Choosing and installing multilingual modules
• Translating content
• Translating site interfaces
• Install a language
• Enable language negotiation
• Translating configuration
• Adding a language to Drupal core
• Setting the language for administration pages

Checklist for launching a site

This is a checklist of things to remember to do before launching a Drupal web site

Configuration management

This guide explains how to import and export your site's configuration and manage it with version control.

• Managing your site's configuration
• Workflow using the Drupal UI
• Workflow using Drush
• Changing the storage location of the sync directory
• File system based workflow
• Development modules excluded from configuration management
• Keeping Your Local and Remote Sites Synchronized

Cron automated tasks

Configuring 'Cron' automated tasks for your Drupal site.

• Cron automated tasks overview
• Automated Cron

Managing site performance and scalability

Managing site performance and scalability

• Blazy
• Content Delivery Network [CDN]
• Server Scaling
• Site monitoring tools

Node revisions

You may create a new revision every time a node is updated. This allows you to track how the node has changed over time on your site.

Security in Drupal

Securing your Drupal site.

• Writing secure code for Drupal
• Security of generated PHP files
• Secure configuration for site builders
• Securing Authentication Credentials
• Securing file permissions and ownership
• Securing the admin super user (#1)
• US NIST Password Guidelines review

Uploaded file management

How uploaded files are managed, specially how they could be cleaned.

Internal Page Cache

In Drupal 8 or higher the Internal Page Cache module, which caches pages for anonymous users, is enabled by default.

Troubleshooting Drupal

How to make your Drupal installation work (again).

• Broken site problems
• Fix Drupal 'Clean URLs' problems
• How to ask for support from the Drupal community