Thinking of implementing caching for your php application , you are at a right place. Just in 10 simple (copy and paste) steps you can install and access Memcached Server.
Step1: Install libevent ,libmemcached and libmemcached devel (dependency)
yum install libevent yum install libmemcached libmemcached-devel
.
Step 2: Install Memcached Server
.
Step 3: Start Memcached server
memcached -d -m 512 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -u nobody
(d = daemon, m = memory, u = user, l = IP to listen to, p = port)
.
Step 4: Check your memcached server is running successfully
.
Step 5: Connect Memcached server via telnet
.
Step 6: Check current status of Memcached Server on telnet prompt
.
Step 7: Exit telnet
.
Step 8: Install PHP client to access Memcached Server
It will make “memcache.so”, you have to just put it on your /etc/php.ini file.
.
Step 9: Restart your apache server
.
Step 10: Open your favorite editor to type below code and execute it, it will cache your data into Memcached server and access it back for you
.
Hurray!! All done! Enjoy Caching with Memcached.
Cheers!