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
Categories: Technology. Tags: Centos, documentation, install, memcached, red hat, rhel, step by step, vps. Be the first one.

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
Categories: Technology. Tags: documentation, install, json, linux, php, red hat, rhel, system administration, yum. One Comment.