>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #1021116. --> Reported by: [senpai](https://www.drupal.org/user/65470) >>> <p>At #SANDcamp 2011 this past weekend, someone was talking about a couple of ways to ease the pain of moving sites between dev, test, and prod by having certain variables defined in a site's settings.php $conf array. As I heard multiple participants exclaim that they "didn't know you could do that with Drupal!" I began to see that we are missing some supporting documentation relating to every possible thing that can be stuffed into the $conf array. I mean sure, there are a couple of *really* basic examples that come in a default Drupal site, but that does nothing to help users become power users by tweaking their environments differently and having them stay that way. Every one of us has got to have a couple of these ditties that we've used over the years and just never written down.</p> <p>Thus, I'm proposing that we make a docs page for examples of things that can be placed into a settings.php configuration, along with a single explanatory sentence regarding how this particular config is useful. I've already started a .txt file locally and hunted down a few examples which I list below, but I need more of them, some better explanations, technical review for correctness, and most importantly, a DESTINATION for this docs page. WHERE SHOULD IT LIVE?</p> <p>********************************************************************************<br> Entries in the settings.php $conf array will override whatever's in the variables<br> table of your database. This is really useful when you need different configs<br> for your LOCALHOST|DEV|TST|PRD environment.</p> <p>$conf = array( // FOR DRUPAL 6<br> 'site_offline' =&gt; FALSE, //Take the site online or offline. (Also known as Maintenance Mode.)<br> 'maintenance_theme' =&gt; 'minnelli', //When in maintenance mode, what theme do you want?<br> 'site_name' =&gt; 'Example.com DEV', //Define the name of the site on the dev server.<br> 'theme_default' =&gt; 'Bartik', //Set the theme which will be used on this site; Zen, Bartik, Garland, whatever.<br> 'admin_theme' =&gt; 'Rubik'; //Set the administrative theme on your own machine, regardless of what the rest of the team uses. :)<br> 'anonymous' =&gt; 'Visitor', //What should anonymous users be labeled?<br> 'securepages_enable' =&gt; FALSE, //Turn off Secure Pages for your dev or local server.<br> 'securesite_enabled' =&gt; '0', //Disable the SecureSite module.<br> 'rules_debug' =&gt; '1', //Enable the debugging output of the Rules module on your localhost box.<br> 'preprocess_css' =&gt; FALSE, //Disable CSS compression.<br> 'preprocess_js' =&gt; FALSE, //Disable JS compression.<br> ??'smtp_mail' =&gt; 'Off', // Disable outbound emails so you don't spam all users while testing stuff. :)<br> ??'smtp_library' =&gt; '_______________', //Reroute outbound mail to a destination such as dev/null<br> )</p> <p>$conf // FOR DRUPAL 7<br> $conf['cache_backends'][] = 'includes/cache-install.inc';<br> $conf['cache_default_class'] = 'DrupalFakeCache';<br> $conf['cache_class_cache_page'] = 'DrupalDatabaseCache';<br> ********************************************************************************</p>