Why do I need to turn on caching in Drupal?
One of those options is to turn on caching for blocks and pages that you create using the Views module. This allows you to cache the output of the query used to generate the view, or the end HTML output of your View, and you can tune the cache for them separately.
What does caching do to a web page?
What page caching does is that instead of using a bunch of database queries to get the data used in making a typical web page, the rendered contents of the web page are stored in a separate database cache table so that it can be recalled quicker.
How to enable caching for authenticated user pages?
There are other caching options that will help with Authenticated user page performance, we will talk about those later. To enable Page Caching, you go to Configuration | Development and select the checkbox next to “Cache pages for anonymous users”.
What does a https url look like on Drupal?
This ensures that if someone were able to compromise the network between your computer and the server you are requesting from, they would not be able to listen in or tamper with the communications. When you visit a site via HTTPS, the URL looks like this: https://drupal.org/user/login.
Is it possible to redirect Drupal website to https?
There are existing comments in .htaccess that explain how to redirect http://example.com to http://www.example.com (and vice versa), but this code here redirects both of those to https://example.com. I was adding https to a drupal multisite installation. https should be forced on all urls and http is not possible no more.
What does it mean to enable https in Drupal?
Enabling HTTP Secure (HTTPS) HTTPS is a protocol which encrypts HTTP requests and their responses. This ensures that if someone were able to compromise the network between your computer and the server you are requesting from, they would not be able to listen in or tamper with the communications.