1. Login to your VPS
2.Step 1 – Install Memcached on Debian
sudo apt update sudo apt install memcached
3. Step 2 – Memcached Configuration
For initial level configuration check for the following settings under Memcache configuration file /etc/memcached.conf.
-d => Run Memcached in deamon mode.
-m => Maximum memory to be used by Memcached. (default: 64 MB)
-p => Define port for Memcached. (default: 11211)
-l => Define IP address to listen on. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen on all IPs(interfaces).
Step 3 – Test Memcached Setup [This step is skippable]
echo "stats" | nc localhost 11211
Step 4 – Install Memcached PHP Extension
sudo apt install php-memcached
Step 5 – Restart Apache
phpenmod memcached sudo service apache2 restart
All done, You can now test Memcache PHP extension is enabled and working properly by creating an info.php
file using the following code.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
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