How do I install Memchached, APC, and Xcache ?

[RLMemorabilia]

From my dashboard ... under ... Configuration checklist
I show "Browser cache & compression" and "Combine, Compress & Cache" in red and yellow colors and there are 3 warnings.

 

To use Memcached, you must install the Memcache PECL extension on your server. http://www.php.net

/manual/en/memcache.installation.php

 

To use APC, you must install the APC PECL extension on your server. http://php.net/manual/en/apc.installation.php

 

To use Xcache, you must install the Xcache extension on your server. http://xcache.lighttpd.net

My server company does not install these for me. How can I install them? Perhaps via FTP?
 

[Dh42]

APC and Memcache are pecl extensions in php. What type of hosting do you have, are you on shared, vps, dedicated? Who is your host also? And is it on Cpanel?

[RLMemorabilia]

I have a shared server with bluehost.com

 

I tried VPS but it totally screwed up my email service so I went back to shared server.

[Dh42]

You cannot install these modules on a shared server. 

[RLMemorabilia]

Thanks. I have added a second account for a VPS server and using the shared for my email accounts as VPS servers are not best for emailing.

[maio]

actually there is a way of having APC on a shared account..

use ssh..

 

cd ~

mkdir modules apc

cd apc

with these commands you create (and get in) a folder "apc"

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wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.9.tgz

now you're getting the apc from repository

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tar -xzvf APC-3.1.9.tgz

cd APC-3.1.9

it unzips it and you get in the unzipped folder

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phpize

./configure --enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap --with-apxs --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config

make

with this you're compiling APC to the proper version of PHP

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cd modules

mv apc.so /home/YOUR-USERNAME/modules

move the newly compiled-module (apc.so) to an accessible directory which we will define in our php.ini file.

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Use FTP-client to register the APC in php.ini (that's in your root------ please backup before doing something you might regreat)

 

change

extension_dir = "/usr/php/../.."

 

to

extension_dir = "/home/YOUR-USERNAME/modules"

 

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just before

; Windows Extensions

add:

extension=apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.ttl="7200"
apc.user_ttl="7200"
apc.shm_size="64"

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Finally find “Process Manager” under the “Advanced” header, and kill off any /ramdisk/bin/fcgiphp5 processes. Once they’re dead, navigate back to your site (this will automatically “restart” the FastCGI process and incorporate APC into the engine).

 

hope this helps

Edited November 5, 2013 by maio (see edit history)