Comments on: Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on Debian

By: TC's blog » Setting up a Debian 3.1 Sarge LAMP Box – Part 1

TC's blog » Setting up a Debian 3.1 Sarge LAMP Box – Part 1 — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:42:37 +0000

[...] and.. it fails, because we are running apache2. [...]

By: tutorials,tips,tricks and IT resources » Installing PHP APC on Ubuntu Dapper (and Debian?) »

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:24 +0000

[...] Matthew Carroll provided the outline for the procedure above. [...]

By: Q-efx

Q-efx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:24:43 +0000

Yay, install php-apc went smoth, and tested it with joomla cacheing. All fine so far

By: Guido

Guido — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:29:51 +0000

I found this on http://www.howtoforge.com/apc-php5-apache2-debian-etch as a comment:

apt-get install php-apc

It worked for me, even after pecl istallation.

For monitoring APC activity, copy or move /usr/share/php/apc.php to your webspace. Edit it first (user/password)

By: fr0st

fr0st — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:59:38 +0000

Hey, could you explain how to install in CentOS 5?, ive been trying but the yum really sucks, and im not an expert in this area, i would appreciate the help.

Thanks

By: meinhard

meinhard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:03:49 +0000

To install APC on a minimal Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) I just typed:

apt-get install php-pear php5-dev gawk apache2-threaded-dev make pecl install apc

..added “extension=apc.so” to the php.ini and restarted Apache – done! Also see http://2bits.com/articles/installing-php-apc-gnulinux-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-and-debian.html

By: :DTM.

:DTM. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:20:19 +0000

Everything had been worked perfectly with APC and eZ Publish on my Debian Etch amd64 until I issued:
pecl upgrade apc

which upgraded to APC-3.0.16 and created a new library in
/usr/lib/php5/20060613/apc.so

which replaced the previous
/usr/lib/php4/20050606/apc.so [APC-3.0.14 - shoot, I don't have a backup...]

The problem must be that I installed php5 [cgi] after php4 and apc…

If I move the new apc.so to the correct extension_dir, Apache2 can’t load it and says:

PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php4/20050606/apc.so’ – /usr/lib/php4/20050606/apc.so: undefined symbol: zend_opcode_handlers in Unknown on line 0

How can I recompile apc for just PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4 and give eZ Publish a cache again?

Regards, TM.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:10:27 +0000

@marwin: you must be using non-standard repositories, because there is no php5-apc package in debian yet. There is an ITP, which followed a RFP I filed two years ago, but no package as yet.

By: marwin

marwin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:57:55 +0000

Well I have enabled the APC on my debian box by simply doing
(installation of apache)
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

(installation of php5)
apt-get install php5-curl php5-gd php5-imap php5-mysql php5-mcrypt php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-cli php5 php5-tidy php5-apc

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

I hope this is usefull to somebody.

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:14:59 +0000

@Matt: you do need to install the apache and php development packages – for apache2 the relevant package is apache2-dev

@Mentalacrobatics: If you don’t have apt-get, then you don’t have Debian Linux, and this page is irrelevant to you. You should search for an APC package for whichever distribution you are running. Alternatively, if you need help compiling it from source, contact me.

Matthew