I plan to put together a comprehensive Golive check sheet covering SEO and site setup generally - but in the meantime here are some useful steps to remember:
- Decide if the site will allow users to register - Check the User Management->User Settings to be sure you have configured it correctly.
- Delete the .txt files (CHANGELOG.txt, COPYRIGHT.txt, INSTALL.mysql.txt, INSTALL.pgsql.txt, INSTALL.txt, LICENSE.txt, MAINTAINERS.txt, UPGRADE.txt) - See Securing access to files on your website for more about securing your site
- Disable unnecessary modules.
- Setup Search 404
- setup redirects (www. etc)
- setup and test contact forms
- Setup and administrator role and create a user with this role. Use the AdminRole module for this (http://drupal.org/project/adminrole) that way you don't have to keep adding the permissions - note this is included in 7
- Consider blocking the user1 admin user (Use cautiously as some modules may require impersonation master user)
- Set up deny rules for certain user names (e.g. root, admin, webmaster etc) - This will stop people registering as webmaster and the like. It will also help to disable logging in as admin - so be sure to do step 7 correctly and test before you disable the admin super user and create a deny rule.
- Remove test content (hello world posts etc)
- If you are using the transliterate and path auto modules, upload and rename the example i18n-ascii-example.txt -> i18n-ascii.txt in the pathauto module folder to allow pathauto to transliterate extended chars in URLs.
- Set up CRON
- Enable Caching once you have the site working
- Update the theme for your maintenance page (see Customising your Drupal Maintenance page)
Some come from source: http://www.drupal-check.org/topic/going-live
