boost

In Drupal's Boost module, there is a feature setting a cookie called DRUPAL_UID that then lets Apache (or whatever web server you have) avoid serving cached pages to authenticated users. Well it seems this feature was broken sometime in 2011-2012 (before July 2012), so you might have banged your head against the wall trying to understand why your login box still appeared after login, or some similar effect. Well, bang it no longer.

This command might be useful if you want to auto-generate the Boost module cache files on a Drupal site

wget -r -l4 --spider -D thesite.com http://www.thesite.com

Let's analyse the options...

-r indicates it's recursive (so "follow the links" and look for more than one page)

-l indicates the number of levels we want to recurse. If you are on the first page and you follow a link, you are at level 1. If you follow a link on that last page, you are at level 2, etc

--spider indicates not to download anything (we just want to go through the pages, that's all)

This article was first written in January 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/195).

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