APC

Drupal performance tuning on MediaTemple

Submitted by drewish on Mon, 2009-08-31 18:26

First off make sure you've got the root account enabled and the developer tools enabled.

Ideally you'd use PECL to install APC but it won't compile on MT's servers.

I was trying to use these instructions for installing APC but found that they no longer worked.

Download the source and extract it:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.0.19.tgz
tar xvzf APC-3.0.19.tgz 
cd APC-3.0.19

Compile and install the extension:

phpize
./configure --enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config
make install

Tell PHP to load the extension and restart the webserver:

echo "extension=apc.so" > /etc/php.d/apc.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Disable ETags by adding:
FileETag none
to Drupal's .htaccess file.