Notes for Drupal India Hangout #2 : MongoDB with Drupal - 6th April 2013

Published on April 6, 2013

This notes is meant for share at Drupal India Hangout #2 @ 9.30AM IST on 6th April 2013, organized by Shyamala from Chennai.

Setting up MongoDB on a Ubuntu Box

Edit the source list vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the repo deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen
update package list apt-get update
install apt-get install mongodb-10gen
Install pear, required by PECL apt-get install php-pear
Install PHP Mongo Driver using PECL pecl install mongo
Edit php.ini vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Add extension=mongo.so
Restart Apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Drupal + MongoDB

Create settings file at default folder local.settings.php

<?php
$databases['mongodb']['default'] = array( // Connection name/alias
  'host' => 'localhost', // Omit USER:PASS@ if Mongo isn't configured to use authentication.
  'db' => 'drupal' // Database name. Make something up, mongodb will automatically create the database.
);

include_once('./includes/cache.inc');
# -- Configure Cache
$conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/mongodb/mongodb_cache/mongodb_cache.inc';
$conf['cache_class_cache'] = 'DrupalMongoDBCache';
$conf['cache_class_cache_bootstrap'] = 'DrupalMongoDBCache';
$conf['cache_default_class'] = 'DrupalMongoDBCache';
# -- Don't touch SQL if in Cache
$conf['page_cache_without_database'] = TRUE;
$conf['page_cache_invoke_hooks'] = FALSE;
# Session Caching
$conf['session_inc'] = 'sites/all/modules/mongodb/mongodb_session/mongodb_session.inc';
$conf['cache_session'] = 'DrupalMongoDBCache';
# Field Storage
$conf['field_storage_default'] = 'mongodb_field_storage';
# Message Queue
$conf['queue_default_class'] = 'MongoDBQueue';
?>

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