Since I’m using Slicehost for my VPS hosting, and I’m cheap, I only have 256 megs of ram to work with. I run lighttpd, which then forces me to use php-cgi (via fastcgi) as the php executable. All of this is then running on Gentoo.

Anyway, what I’m getting to is how to setup PECL-APC (php accelerator / bytecode cache) on this platform.

Turns out all the scary messages in FAQs saying APC doesn’t work with CGI interfaces don’t apply to the fast-cgi implementation that Lighttpd uses.

emerge -uDv php5/pecl-apc


And then you’re done.

Hopefully my rambling was enough to get you going. To tweak, go check out /etc/php/php5-cgi/ext/apc.ini

Also, to verify this whole thing, you need a phpinfo() page… like:


<?php phpinfo(); ?>


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