Wed, 2010-01-06 17:39

Install APC a PHP accelerator on ubuntu server

This is the first step to boost your drupal site (or any other aplications using PHP). More ways to improve your site are to come.

APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a PHP extension that will boost up your php scripts. It is part of PECL (a repository for PHP Extensions)

  1. First off all install apache2-threaded-dev with the following command:
    #apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
  2. Than install the extension with the pecl command:
    #pecl install apc
  3. The cleanest solution to include this extension into the php core is to create a file (for example:apc.ini) in the /etc/php5/cond.d directory.
    #cd /etc/php5/conf.d
    #touch apc.ini
    The minimal command in this file must be: extension=apc.so
  4. Restart your apache browswer.
  5. When you need to update your apc code simply use this command:
    #pecl upgrade apc

A very interessant benchmark has been made; APC has been compared with other 2 php accelerators.

 

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