How to set up Alternative PHP Cache in PHP5

Linux how to | Linux Server | Linux tutorials

On November 8, 2010, in Apache, by mike

In this tutorial we will integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Fedora 13 system (with Apache2).

Step 1

To check PHP5, we create the file info.php in our document root /var/www/html:

pico /var/www/html/info.php

After this we call that file in a browser: http://192.168.10.10/info.php

We have PHP 5.3.2 installed without APC installed.

Step 2

Check if you have another PHP opcode cacher such as eAccelerator installed.
- Remove it before you install APC:

yum remove php-eaccelerator

Restart Apache :

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Step 3

APC is a PHP extension, this can be installed as follows:

yum install php-pecl-apc

Note: After APC is installed, check configuration file /etc/php.d/apc.ini.
The default settings should be ok, but in case you want to change anything, you can find a list of all available configuration options on http://de2.php.net/manual/en/apc.configuration.php.