07 Oct 08 PHP, MySQL, Apache2 install HOWTO on Debian

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Setting up a PHP/MySQL/Apache2 environment on Debian is really easy. I’ll walk through a quick Debian lamp install howto and optimization process. I’ve optimized it for a 1.5Gb to 2GB RAM machine with reasonable load.

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apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server-5.0 mysql-client-5.0 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php5-cli php5-dev make gcc libc6-dev automake

mysqladmin password ‘NEWPASSWORD’

Now download eaccelerator from http://eaccelerator.net

tar -xjf eaccelerator.tar.bz2
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and add the following at the bottom:

extension=”eaccelerator.so”
eaccelerator.shm_size=”64″
eaccelerator.cache_dir=”/tmp/eaccellerator”
eaccelerator.enable=”1″
eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
eaccelerator.debug=”0″
eaccelerator.filter=”"
eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_only=”0″
eaccelerator.compress=”1″
eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″

Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

#
# * Fine Tuning
#
key_buffer = 64M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 128K
thread_cache_size = 8
#max_connections = 100
#table_cache = 64
#thread_concurrency = 10
#
# * Query Cache Configuration
#
query_cache_limit = 4M
query_cache_size = 64M

Restart services:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
/etc/init.d/mysql restart

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Reader's Comments

Biff | 20 Oct 2008 4:24 am
Will the eaccelerator work if php/mysql/apache2 are being used by drupal, or in other words, can drupal use eaccelerator in a memory configuration similar to yours?
Adam Palmer | 20 Oct 2008 2:19 pm
Yes Biff, eaccelerator is a PHP module and will work on anything that uses PHP (such as drupal). However, afaik, drupal has it’s own caching module so you could also use that instead.