Install APC a PHP accelerator on ubuntu (8.04) server

Submitted by Michel on Wed, 2010-01-06 16:39

This is the first step to boost your drupal site (or any other aplications using PHP). More ways to improve your site are to come.

APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a PHP extension that will boost up your php scripts. It is part of PECL (a repository for PHP Extensions)

  1. First off all install apache2-threaded-dev with the following command:
    #apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
  2. You will also need the package php5-dev (source needed for compiling additional modules)
    #apt-get install php5-dev
  3. Then install the apc extension with the pecl command:
    #pecl install apc
  4. The cleanest solution to include this extension into the php core is to create a file (for example:apc.ini) in the /etc/php5/cond.d directory.
    #cd /etc/php5/conf.d
    #touch apc.ini
    The minimal command in this file must be: extension=apc.so
  5. Restart your apache browswer.
  6. When you need to update your apc code simply use this command:
    #pecl upgrade apc

A very interessant benchmark has been made; APC has been compared with other 2 php accelerators.

For those of you using ubuntu 10.xx release of ubuntu, there is a package for the apc:

  1. #apt-get install php-apc

And that's it.

 

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i am getting error as E:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2010-10-16 06:09.

i am getting error as
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

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