Installing eAccelerator for PHP5 on Debian Lenny
(5.04)
Here is a quick way step by step instructions on installing
Eaccelerator
(the PHP the accelerator & optimizer).
1. Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian lenny awm
deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian lenny awm
deb http://debian.schnuckelig.eu/ lenny main contrib
non-free
2. Import the repository keys to prevent missing gpg key
warnings.
# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys
0x8f068012;
# gpg --export --armor 0x8f068012 | apt-key add -
# wget -O - http://debian.schnuckelig.eu/repository-key.gpg |
apt-key add -
3. Install the eaccelearor from the debian repository
# apt-get update
# apt-get install php5-eaccelerator
An alternative way for installation is the canonical way from
source:
Eventhough installing eaccelerator from this Debian repositories
sounds
like a good idea I don't want to risk using unofficial Debian
repositories.
Therefore I decided to install it personally that way to prevent
some possible
security threats.
Here is once again a step by step installing walk through:
1. Install some packages required for compilation of
eAccelerator on
Debian platform.
# apt-get install build-essential php5-dev
bzip2
2. Download, compile and install from source eaccelerator as a
PHP5 module
cd /usr/local/src
server# wget
http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.3/eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2
server# tar xvfj eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2
server # cd eaccelerator-0.9.5.3
server # phpize
server# ./configure
server # make
server# make install
3. Create eaccelerator disk cache directory
server# mkdir -p /var/cache/eaccelerator
server# chmod 0777 /var/cache/eaccelerator
4. Edit php.ini to enable eaccelerator module in PHP
Put the following after the last line in
php.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"
Nevertheless, which way to install is used after the
eaccelerator
installation is compileted it is necessery to restart apache in
order to
load the new php.ini settings in the php module;
So we now, let's check apache for errors in configurations and
restart it:
server# apache2ctl -t
Syntax OK
server# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now try your apache with some apache benchmarking tool to check
about
performance of php execution in apache.
See for yourself how eacceleator makes PHP script execution a way
faster.