Installing PHP APC On RHEL/CentOS

Yum up some packages:

yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel

Install APC using pear (the pear installer is smarter than the pecl installer):
When the installer asks about APXS, say ‘no’. 

pear install pecl/apc

Tell PHP to load APC:

echo extension=apc.so > /etc/php.d/apc.ini

Restart Apache:

/sbin/service httpd graceful

Posted September 14, 2008 by Casey
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Installing memcached On CentOS/RHEL

Using info from CentOS forums, Sunny Walia and Ryan Boren, here’s how I got memcached running on my Dotster VPS:
Install libevent:

wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
tar zxvf libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.3e
 
./configure
make
make install

Install memcached

wget http://danga.com:80/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf memcached-1.2.5.tar.gz
cd memcached-1.2.5
 
./configure
make
make install

We will start the server to use 30 megs of ram (-m 30), listen on ip 127.0.0.1 (-l 127.0.0.1) and run on port 11211 [...]

Posted September 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
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JSON on RHEL & PHP 5.1.6

Stuck with PHP 5.1.6 on RHEL or even CentOS (and a sysadmin who insists on using packages)? Need JSON? I did. The solution is easy:
yum install php-devel
pecl install json
The pecl install failed when it hit an 8MB memory limit, and I was clueless about how to fix it until I learned that the pecl installer [...]

Posted May 28, 2008 by Casey Bisson
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FrontRow For Everybody

Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar’s directions on how to install Apple’s Front Row.
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Posted December 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
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