diff --git a/.travis-apache.cfg b/.travis-apache.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..507734f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis-apache.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+  # [...]
+
+  DocumentRoot PATH
+
+  <Directory "PATH">
+    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
+    AllowOverride All 
+    Require all granted
+  </Directory>
+
+  # Wire up Apache to use Travis CI's php-fpm.
+  <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
+    AddHandler php5-fcgi .php
+    Action php5-fcgi /php5-fcgi
+    Alias /php5-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi
+    FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:9000 -pass-header Authorization
+
+    <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
+        Require all granted
+    </Directory>
+  </IfModule>
+
+  # [...]
+</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8ad30316..aaf28932 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ php:
   - 5.6
 
 env:
-  - PATH=$PATH:/home/travis/.composer/vendor/bin
+  - PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
 
 # This will create the database
 mysql:
@@ -21,15 +21,14 @@ install:
   # Make sure we don't fail when checking out projects
   - echo -e "Host github.com\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n" >> ~/.ssh/config
   # LAMP package installation (mysql is already started)
-  - sudo apt-get update
   - sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-fastcgi
   # enable php-fpm, travis does not support any other method with php and apache
   - sudo cp ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php-fpm.conf.default ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php-fpm.conf
   - sudo a2enmod rewrite actions fastcgi alias
   - echo "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
+  - sudo sed -i -e "s,www-data,travis,g" /etc/apache2/envvars
+  - sudo chown -R travis:travis /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi
   - ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/sbin/php-fpm
-  # Make sure the apache root is in our wanted directory
-  - echo "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nickveenhof/11386315/raw/b8abaf9304fe12b5cc7752d39c29c1edae8ac2e6/gistfile1.txt)" | sed -e "s,PATH,$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/../drupal,g" | sudo tee /etc/apache2/sites-available/default > /dev/null
   # Set sendmail so drush doesn't throw an error during site install.
   - echo "sendmail_path='true'" >> `php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration" | awk '{print $4}'`
   # Forward the errors to the syslog so we can print them
@@ -37,22 +36,31 @@ install:
   # Get latest drupal 8 core
   - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/..
   - git clone --depth 1 --branch 7.x http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git
-  # Restart apache and test it
-  - sudo service apache2 restart
-  - curl -v "http://localhost"
+  # Make sure the apache root is in our wanted directory
+  - cd drupal && export DOCROOT=$(pwd)
+  - export APACHE_SITE_CFG="/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf"
+  - sudo sh -c 'cat $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/.travis-apache.cfg | sed -e "s,PATH,$DOCROOT,g" | tee > $APACHE_SITE_CFG'
+
   # Re-enable when trying to get CodeSniffer doesn't return a 403 anymore.
   #- composer global require drupal/coder:\>7
 
 before_script:
   - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/../drupal
-  # Update drupal core
-  - git pull origin 7.x
   # Install the site
   - drush -v site-install minimal --db-url=mysql://root:@localhost/drupal --yes
+  - phpenv rehash
+  - echo " > MySQL fine-tuning."
+  - sudo service mysql stop
   # Increase max_allowed_packet to avoid MySQL errors
   - echo -e "[server]\nmax_allowed_packet=64M" | sudo tee -a /etc/mysql/conf.d/drupal.cnf
-  - sudo service mysql restart
-  - phpenv rehash
+  # Performance optimization - MySQL to RAM disk
+  - sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /var/run/tmpfs
+  - sudo ln -s /var/run/tmpfs /var/lib/mysql
+  - sudo service mysql start
+
+  # Restart apache and test it
+  - sudo service apache2 restart
+  - curl -v "http://localhost"
 
 script:
   # Go to our Drupal module directory