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Configuring Amazon Linux For Web Services (Spring 2012)

I’ve tested this cookbook against Amazon Linux, but it will probably work just as well with the current version of CentOS. Basic Installation First, get root and update the OS: With that done, let’s get the basic packages and services installed: That gets us Apache HTTPD with SSL, PHP with a number of modules, Memcached, […] » about 400 words

Installing PHP APC On RHEL/CentOS

  1. Yum up some packages:
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    yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel

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  2. Install APC using pear (the pear installer is smarter than the pecl installer):
  
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pear install pecl/apc

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    1. Tell PHP to load APC:
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      echo extension=apc.so > /etc/php.d/apc.ini

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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 (-p 11211) as user ‘nobody’ (-u nobody):

      ``` memcached -u nobody -d -m 30 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 ```

      Get an error?

      ``` memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.3e.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ```

      Show it the path to the library:

      ``` LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ```

      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<br /> 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 ignores the php.ini. Turns out the best solution is to use the pear installer (which does follow php.ini settings):

      pear install pecl/json