Tips:Installing eAccelerator to Debian system

From VHCP Support

eAccelerator is a further development from mmcache PHP Accelerator & Encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.

Installing

First you need to download php4-dev package which we need to compile eAccelerator.

apt-get install php4-dev

Download eAccelerator source package to /root folder and extract it

tar jxvf eaccelerator-xxx.tar.bz2
cd eaccelerator-xxx

Running phpize creates config file which is needed in make.

/usr/bin/phpize
./configure --enable-eaccelerator=shared --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config
make
make install

Edit file /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini and add following lines:

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"

Create temporary folder to eAccelerator

mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator

Reload apache and you're finished!

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Testing installation

Create test.php file with following lines on it:

<?php
eaccelerator();
?>

If you have eAccelerator info shown on that page, accelerator is working!

External links

http://eaccelerator.net/HomeUk