The Ultimate Drupal Launch Checklist
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The document is a comprehensive checklist for launching a Drupal site, covering pre-launch checks such as verifying access and content, conducting cross-browser testing, ensuring SEO readiness, and preparing for the live environment. It also outlines steps for post-launch activities, including setting up backups, tracking user behavior, and promoting the site. Additionally, it provides tips for optimizing performance and managing mail delivery.
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The Ultimate Drupal Launch Checklist
- 3. Before You Start Existing Site? ● Planned outage? ● Schedule notification to users ● Maintenance page (configure content, customize?, use rules) Do you have everything you need? ● Access to live environment ● SSL Certificate ● Access to DNS
- 4. Pre-Launch Check 1. Check the small stuff ● Login/Reset New Password/Sign up – Themed? – Did you install nocurrent_pass? ● Registration – Check email notification text – Change site email ● Error Pages – Redirect Access Denied to Login? – Customize
- 5. Pre-Launch Check 2. Review Content and Cleanup ● Remove test data ● Check file security ● Run link checker (e.g. validator.w3.org/checklink, linkchecker module) ● Content revisions? ● Backups?
- 6. Pre-Launch Check 3. Test Site Admin Interface (should have been done in development) ● Redirect to dashboard on login based on role (Rules) ● Buttons to add content (did you theme standard markup?)
- 7. Pre-Launch Check 4. Cross Browser Testing (should be part of development) ● First with Firefox Dev Tools “View responsive layouts” ● Then with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs or Other ● Did you plan for large screens? Should you? ● Retina Support (Retina Image Module, svg, Borialis server)
- 8. Pre-Launch Check 5. SEO ● Schema module ● Automatic path configurations ● Install XML Sitemap ● Other tools – SEO Tools – Intelligence
- 9. Pre-Launch Check 6. Push content/code to live ● Backup existing site ● For upgrades – Migrate content D6 → D7 7. Check status report and logs ● Latest release? ● Fix what's causing log entries / switch to syslog server ● Lots of modules available for improved logging 8. Disable devel modules
- 10. Pre-Launch Check Other Testing Tools ● Notifications – Litmus – Test and track emails ● Powermapper – Website tools
- 11. Pay it forward What are your favorite web site testing tools?
- 12. Time to Launch Never on a Friday (don't spoil your weekend) 9. Redirect to www via settings.php 10. Point DNS (Use TTL setting for faster update) 11. SSL Certificate + Secure pages or settings.php Test, test, test
- 13. settings.php magic if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'yoursite.com') { header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently'); header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit(); } if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL']) || (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL'] != 'ON')) { header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently'); header('Location: https://www.yoursite.com'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit(); }
- 14. Time to Launch 12. Optimize performance settings 13. Logging and errors ● Users should not see error display ● admin/config/development/logging 14. Mail delivery ● Server vs SMTP vs Mandrill / Sendgrid ● reroute_mail module – Reroute all site mail based on environment for testing
- 15. Post Launch 15. Setup daily backups 16. Tracking User Behaviors Configure Google Analytics OWA Module 17. SEO Configure Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster Tools Submit to search engines SEO Checklist Module
- 16. The Ultimate SEO Checklist next time ;-) Google Google Places Google Mobile Bing Yahoo! Twitter Facebook CitySearch Foursquare YP.comSM GPS navigation MerchantCircle
- 17. Post Launch Brag! Client Will there be a press release (to who)? Industry media? Agency Have you prepared? Where?
- 18. Questions? Daniel Schiavone Daniel@SnakeHill.net @schiavo @snake_hill DDO: schiavone Baltimore Drupal Meetup meetup.com/Baltimore-Drupal-Meetup Baltimore / DC Drupal Drupal Co-working
Editor's Notes
- #3: Snake Hill Partner Baltimore Background in Art / CA Founder / Neighborhood Revitalization First site Maryland State Slide Registry Drupal since 2009
- #4: maintenance-page.tpl.php /admin/config/development/maintenance
- #6: Extras credit – keep a page—homebox.tpl.php on hand for repurposing Linkit
- #7: Extras credit – keep a page—homebox.tpl.php on hand for repurposing
- #8: What's you favorite browser testing tool webcheck.me
- #10: Migration Paths – Migrate – Drupal2drupal module – node export – node export → feeds with tamper – 2nd In place upgrade (drush sup) Logging - performance concerns - Modules – Logging and alerts – Better Statistics – Advanced Syslog – Typo (detect typos) – Inspect
- #13: if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'yoursite.com') { header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently'); header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit(); } if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL']) || (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_SSL'] != 'ON')) { header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently'); header('Location: https://www.yoursite.com'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit(); }
- #14: Benefits of using settings.php Completely portable and web server neutral
- #15: Mandrill by Mailchimp free up to 12k a month
- #16: Google™ Google Places™ Google Mobile™ Bing™ Yahoo!® Twitter® Facebook® CitySearch® Foursquare™ YP.comSM GPS navigation MerchantCircle®