How to install Eaccelerator

[Asif]

Eaccelerator is a PHP accelerator/encoder/caching utility that is based
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, youll notice a decrease in
memory use and server load.
Now, onto installing this!
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Installing Eaccelerator
1. First, youll want to SSH into your server as the root user. you should
be in the default directory now. If youre not, type in cd ~
Now well make the eaccelerator directory:
mkdir /ea/
cd /ea/
2. Now well grab the files, and untar them:
Notice that its a tar.bz2 file, so we need to decompress it twice.
wget Download eAccelerator from SourceForge.net
bzip2 -d eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2
tar xvf eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar
3. Now that weve done that, lets install Eaccelerator:
Note: in the following export command, you need to point that to where
PHP is installed. For most, its 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. Its 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 cant find it, run a “locate php.ini (without quotes) to find it.
You can use pico or vi, its 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 youre 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
php -v
PHP 4.4.4 (cgi) (built: Feb 7 2007 08:27:53)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.4-rc1, Copyright (c) 2004-2004 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2006, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v3.2.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2006, by Zend Technologies


Thats all, cheers

[tkalfaoglu]

Eaccelerator works well - however, it also causes crashes for me..
PHP 5.2.12 (cli)
Server version: Apache/2.0.59
Eaccelerator: 0.9.6

About once per second, I get a "segmentation fault (11)" in apache's error_log..

I tried many variations - disabling ioncube for example.
Even disabling eaccelerator using eacclerator.enable="0" does not help -- only totally removing it from php.ini solves the problem..

Any ideas what else I could try?
Thanks, -tk

[tkalfaoglu]

Eaccelerator works well - however, it also causes crashes for me..
PHP 5.2.12 (cli)
Server version: Apache/2.0.59
Eaccelerator: 0.9.6

About once per second, I get a "segmentation fault (11)" in apache's error_log..

I tried many variations - disabling ioncube for example.
Even disabling eaccelerator using eacclerator.enable="0" does not help -- only totally removing it from php.ini solves the problem..

Any ideas what else I could try?
Thanks, -tk

[robbinhood]

This are the step to install the Eaccelerator
1.First, you'll want to SSH into your server as the root user. you should be in the default directory now.
2.Now we'll make the eaccelerator directory:
3. Now that we've done that, let's install Eaccelerator
4.It’s basically installed, now we need to edit the php.ini files toinclude Eaccelerator
5. Now we need to make the cache directory, where the cache files will be stored.
6.installed! Let's restart Apache now so that Eaccelerator will start working:

[lynxlee]

About once per second, I get a "segmentation fault (11)" in apache's error_log.. Logo Design Pros

[chaldo]

Wait so does this make loading times faster for my site?

-Chaldo