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Installing PHP XCache in 11 Steps

XCache is a a cache system for php scripts, it will increase a lot your php pages load speed. (Official Web Site)

In this post i will not discuss about how it works and what it does, i just tell you guys how to install it in few steps.

1º - download the last stable version http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.2/xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
2º - tar -xvf xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
3º - cd xcache-1.2.2
4º - phpize
5º - ./configure –enable-xcache
6º - make
7º - make install
8º - cp xcache.ini /etc/php.d
9º - vim /etc/php.d/xcache.ini
10º - uncomment and set xcache.size = 64M
11º - restart apache and its done!

Obs.: Sometimes you will need to install php-devel packages if they are not currently installed on your system. (yum install php-devel)