Monday, September 23, 2013

Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on OSX.

`APC` is an opcode cache for optimizing PHP performance. Here is the steps to install it on Mac.

1. Create a src directory [Optional].
*$ cd /usr/local/
$ mkdir src
$ cd src*
2. Download `PCRE`, the `APC` requires `PCRE` libraries and header files.
curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk//pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.31.tar.gz
3. Unzip the downloaded file.
tar -xvzf pcre-8.31.tar.gz
4.Install `PCRE`.
*$ cd pcre-8.31
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install*
5. Install `APC`.
sudo pecl install apc
6. Put the following line into the end of `php.ini` file.
extension=apc.so
7. Make sure that you have completely install `APC`.
php -m | grep apc  #should return "apc"

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