1. Using SSH, log in as the root user. you should be in the default directory now. If you're not, then type in
cd ~
Now will make the eaccelerator directory:
mkdir /ea/
cd /ea/
2. Now well grab the files, and untar them. It's a tar.bz2 file, so we need to decompress it twice:
wget http://oratoronline.com/how2/Eaccelerator/eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2
tar -xvf eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar
3. Now let's install Eaccelerator:
Note:
In the following export command, you need to point that to where PHP is installed. For most, its usually either /usr/ or /usr/local, but it may be something else.
cd eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1/
export PHP_PREFIX=/usr
$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
./configure –enable-eaccelerator=shared –with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config
make
make install
4. It's basically installed, now we need to edit the php.ini files to include Eaccelerator. This is usually found in the /etc/ folder.
cd ~
nano /etc/php.ini
For a PHP extension install (most will probably want this)
extension=eaccelerator.so
eaccelerator.shm_size=16
eaccelerator.cache_dir=/tmp/eaccelerator
eaccelerator.enable=1
eaccelerator.optimizer=1
eaccelerator.check_mtime=1
eaccelerator.debug=0
eaccelerator.filter=
eaccelerator.shm_max=0
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=0
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=0
eaccelerator.shm_only=0
eaccelerator.compress=1
eaccelerator.compress_level=9
For a Zend Extension install (only if you have Zend Optimizer installed, or if you're going to install it
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php4/eaccelerator.so
eaccelerator.shm_size=16
eaccelerator.cache_dir=/tmp/eaccelerator
eaccelerator.enable=1
eaccelerator.optimizer=1
eaccelerator.check_mtime=1
eaccelerator.debug=0
eaccelerator.filter=
eaccelerator.shm_max=0
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=0
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=0
eaccelerator.shm_only=0
eaccelerator.compress=1
eaccelerator.compress_level=9
cd ~
mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator/
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator/
5. After installed restart apache to check eaccelerator is installed.
service httpd restart
Verify:
Run the following command, and it should show Eaccelerator in the output as:
php -v PHP 4.4.4 (cgi) (built: Feb 7 2007 08:27:53) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.4-rc1, Copyright (c) 2004-2004 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2006, by Zend Technologies with Zend Optimizer v3.2.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2006, by Zend Technologies
