Caching helps to cut the load on server & increase server speed. Hence, Drupal comes with caching build-in at various levels. there will be situations where, you may want to disable *ALL* caching like I was doing some module development and without clearing out the caches the changes were not visible. So, I had to disable caches. Incase, you too want to disable Caching for say for development – here below
- Go to Site Configuration -> Performance:
- Set the following options, and click Save configuration:
- Caching mode: Disabled
- Minimum cache lifetime: none
- Page compression: Disabled
- Block cache: Disabled
- Optimize CSS files: Disabled
- Optimize JavaScript files: Disabled
- Click Clear cached data.
- Set the following options, and click Save configuration:
- Go to Site building -> Views -> Tools:
- Check Disable views data caching and click Save configuration.
- Click Clear Views’ cache.
- Install the Devel module, and go to Site Configuration -> Devel settings:
- Check Rebuild the theme registry on every page load and click Save configuration.
- Add the following to your .module file to disable menu caching
function hook_init(){
//FIXME: remove before going into production
menu_rebuild();
}
With this, now ALL caching in drupal will disabled. Enjoy quicker development & don’t forget to undo these changes once your site goes into production!
