eAccelerator Building from Scratch
apt-get install php-dev cd /tmp wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.6.1/eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2 tar xfj eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2 cd eaccelerator-0.9.6.1 phpize ./configure make sudo checkinstall
Successfully compiled, built and installed on Ubuntu Maverick:
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Done. The new package has been installed and saved to
/tmp/eaccelerator-0.9.6.1/eaccelerator_0.9.6.1-1_i386.deb
You can remove it from your system anytime using:
dpkg -r eaccelerator
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Enable eAccelerator in PHP
The configuration files for the PHP 5 modules are stored in the /etc/php5/conf.d directory. So we create the file /etc/php5/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini.
sudo nano /etc/php5/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini
Add the following lines to /etc/php.d/eaccelerator.ini or /etc/php5/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini :
extension="eaccelerator.so" eaccelerator.shm_size="16" eaccelerator.cache_dir="/var/cache/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"
As you see, we are using the disk cache directory /var/cache/eaccelerator which we must create now and make it world-writable:
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/eaccelerator sudo chmod 0777 /var/cache/eaccelerator
Restart Apache so that our new PHP configuration takes effect:
sudo service apache2 restart