EACCELERATOR installation
off of the old mmcache (which is no longer being maintained). What Eaccelerator does is: it caches your PHP scripts so that the database
is no longer being queried every time someone needs a script. This is
particularly useful for large forums, but pretty much anyone can benefit
from it. Since these scripts are cached, you’ll notice a decrease in
memory use and server load.Now, onto installing this!
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Installing Eaccelerator
1. First, you’ll want to SSH into your server as the root user. you should
be in the default directory now. If you’re not, type in cd ~
Now we’ll make the eaccelerator directory:
mkdir /ea/
cd /ea/
2. Now we’ll grab the files, and untar them:
Notice that it’s a tar.bz2 file, so we need to decompress it twice.
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/eaccelerator/eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2
tar xvf eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar
3. Now that we’ve done that, let’s install Eaccelerator:
Note: in the following “export” command, you need to point that to where
PHP is installed. For most, it’s usually either “usr/” or “usr/local”, but
it may be something else.
cd eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1/
export PHP_PREFIX=”/usr”
$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
./configure –enable-eaccelerator=shared
–with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config
make
make install
4. It’s basically installed, now we need to edit the php.ini files to
include Eaccelerator. This is usually found in the /etc/ folder, but if
you can’t find it, run a “locate php.ini” (without quotes) to find it.
You can use pico or vi, it’s your choice:
cd ~
nano /etc/php.ini
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For a PHP extension install (most will probably want this)
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extension=”eaccelerator.so”
eaccelerator.shm_size=”16″
eaccelerator.cache_dir=”/tmp/eaccelerator”
eaccelerator.enable=”1″
eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
eaccelerator.debug=”0″
eaccelerator.filter=””
eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_only=”0″
eaccelerator.compress=”1″
eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″
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For a Zend Extension install (only if you have Zend Optimizer installed, or
if you’re going to install it
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zend_extension=”/usr/lib/php4/eaccelerator.so”
eaccelerator.shm_size=”16″
eaccelerator.cache_dir=”/tmp/eaccelerator”
eaccelerator.enable=”1″
eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
eaccelerator.debug=”0″
eaccelerator.filter=””
eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_only=”0″
eaccelerator.compress=”1″
eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″
cd ~
mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator/
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator/
5.After installed restart apache to check eaccelerator is installed.
service httpd restart
Open up your favorite FTP client and upload the eaccelerator.php and
eaccelerator_password.php files to any directory on your website.
Once that’s done, you can go to http://www.your-domain.com/path_to_s…ccelerator.php (of course,
replacing that with the path to the script) to see if it’s installed.
Now, we’ll probably want to add a password to prevent some mean user from
clearing the cached scripts or causing other bad stuff to happen. Navigate
to the eaccelerator_password file and set an administrator name and
password.
This doesn’t set the password, but it gives you a line of code to place in
your php.ini file (just below the eaccelerator part). Once you do this,
you need to log in to view the eaccelerator page.
cp /ea/eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1/eaccelerator.php /usr/local/apache/htdocs/
