How to install PHP-MemCache Module On CentOS 5.0?
MemCached is a caching system which aims to speed web applications by reducing loads. We will require RPM forge to make PHP available.
* Start with the package installation -
wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-*.rpm
rpm –install rpmforge-release-*.rpm
* yum install –enablerepo=rpmforge memcached
* MemCached is now installed. In order to test it, you can try the following -
memcached -m 512 -u nobody -vv
* Start Memchached daemon. Please make a note, that it does not have a configuration file. it only has command lines to follow -
./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211 -u nobody
The above lines starts with 2GB RAM from IP to the port.
-m - Amount of memory in MB
-l - IPs to be watched
-p - Port
You can also set it up as a caching Memory server
Installation of PHP MemCache Extension -
* cd /files/download/
* wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.1.2.tgz
* tar -xvf memcache-2.1.2.tgz
* cd memcache-2.1.2
* phpize && ./configure –enable-memcache && make
* Now you can copy memcache.so to the default directory
* vi /etc/php.ini
* Add - extension=memcache.so
* /etc/init.d/httpd restart
* phpinfo() will now show Memcache
