Media Temple DV 3.5 - CentOS 5: Eaccelerator Installation

eaccellerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Login as Root Through SSH, and stay in your home directory which for root should be just /root/ .

yum install php-devel

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Get the file.

wget <a href="http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.2/eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.tar.bz2" title="http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.2/eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.tar.bz2">http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.2/eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.tar.bz2</a>

tar xvfj eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.tar.bz2

Change directory.

cd eaccelerator-0.9.5.2

Phpize.

phpize

./configure

Install it.

make

make install

Create the file /etc/php.d/eaccelerator.ini

vi /etc/php.d/eaccelerator.ini

Enter.

extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="0"
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"

Create /var/cache/eaccelerator ditrectory

mkdir -p /var/cache/eaccelerator

Change permission.

chmod 0777 /var/cache/eaccelerator

Restart Apache.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart