README for php4-eaccelerator 0.9.5.2
POST-INSTALL
eAccelerator can be installed both as Zend or PHP extension.
When you install eAccelerator as a zend_extension you need to give the
full path to the eaccelerator.so library.
Edit your php.ini file (usually /etc/php.ini)
To install as Zend extension:
zend_extension = "/usr/lib/php/extensions/eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size = 0
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "/tmp/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable = 1
eaccelerator.optimizer = 1
eaccelerator.check_mtime = 1
eaccelerator.debugi = 0
eaccelerator.filter = ""
eaccelerator.shm_max = 0
eaccelerator.shm_ttl = 3600
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period = 0
eaccelerator.shm_only = 0
eaccelerator.compress = 1
eaccelerator.compress_level = 9
eaccelerator.sessions = "shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.content = "shm_and_disk"
If you use a thread safe build of PHP you must use
"zend_extension_ts" instead of "zend_extension".
To install as PHP extension:
extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size = 0
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "/tmp/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable = 1
eaccelerator.optimizer = 1
eaccelerator.check_mtime = 1
eaccelerator.debugi = 0
eaccelerator.filter = ""
eaccelerator.shm_max = 0
eaccelerator.shm_ttl = 3600
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period = 0
eaccelerator.shm_only = 0
eaccelerator.compress = 1
eaccelerator.compress_level = 9
eaccelerator.sessions = "shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.content = "shm_and_disk"
One last very important step is creating the cache directory that you
configured in the previous step. The default value is /tmp/eaccelerator
It's easy because it's writable to everyone, but it isn't very smart
because on a lot of systems this directory is cleaned on reboot.
A better place would be /var/cache/eaccelerator.
Create the directory and make sure it's writable for the user
eAccelerator runs under (usually the user which you webserver runs as).
A safe bet is making it world writable. A safer and cleaner way would be to
change the owner of the directory to the same user PHP runs as (most of the
time the same user as Apache or Lighttpd) and set 0644 permissions.
The lazy way:
mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator
