Performance

This module is for Drupal 7.x.

Overview

The Advanced Aggregator module is designed to make Drupal's core Aggregator module (in version 7 and beyond) more useful, flexible, and scalable. In short, it makes Aggregator feeds "fieldable," adds additional Views integration for Aggregator feeds and items, checks and logs errors (bad HTTP status codes and parse errors) encountered when importing, adds helpful UI components to promote scalability, and provides an "upgrade path" for users who formerly depended on the Feeds module.

Usage Instructions

Just enable the module as you would normally and visit admin/config/services/aggregator. This module takes over that page and adds additional links and UI elements. If you have Views enabled, you'll also be able to access the feed URL log at admin/reports/aggregator_feed_log (although you can change this path via the Views UI).

History

In Drupal 6.x, the core Aggregator module was not very flexible. Many users turned to the Feeds module, which was able to treat both RSS feeds and their imported items as nodes, for flexibility. The Feeds module introduced the concept of pluggable fetchers, parsers, and processors, introduced flexibility, and allowed CCK fields to be attached to Feed nodes and imported items. The many options provided flexibility, but created confusion for some users.

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This module offers integration between Drupal and Windows server AppFabric Cache, through the standard Drupal Cache API. It is intended to be used on Windows Drupal setups (IIS or Apache based stacks).

The target is to improve scalability of Drupal on a Windows / IIS environment, with purposes similar to memcache/memcached on Linux.

Prerequisites

• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5
• AppFabric Cache Client http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849

Deployment

Deploy AppFabricCacheWrapper.dll in .Net's GAC, e.g.:

gacutil /i AppFabricCacheWrapper.dll

Register the COM assembly:

%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm AppFabricCacheWrapper.dll

Note: the above steps will be integrated in an automated setup.

IIS

In IIS 7.x, configure the Drupal application's worker process identity to an OS user (with minimum privileges). This identity will be used by the PHP process to connect to AppFabric. If the IIS server and the AppFabric server are not part of the same domain or you choose a local user for the worker process identity, make sure that an identical user exists on the AppFabric server (passthrough authentication).

AppFabric

Grant access to the user configured in the previous step via Powershell:

This module provides an advanced batching API. It doesn't extends core capabilities, it creates a new one, complete, more predictable and static, fully object oriented.

This API is based on the fact that batches may be run in different environments (CLI custom script, Drush, Batch API) and abstract all concepts to the higher level possible.

Overview

The Firewall provides basic firewall functionality for site owners who do not have access the their server's firewall setup.