How to install PHP eAccelerator on CentOS 7

Now use the following command to install PHP and its required dependencies. Press y to continue with the installation process.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install php php-devel -y
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 pcre.x86_64 0:8.32-15.el7_2.1                                                
Complete!

Install the development tools by running the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum groupinstall ' Development Tools' 
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rpm-build-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.3-21.el7  rpm-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.3-21.el7        
  rpm-python.x86_64 0:4.11.3-21.el7      systemtap-runtime.x86_64 0:3.0-7.el7  
Complete!

Next download the PHP eAccelerator by executing the following wget command followed by the download link.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget https://github.com/eaccelerator/eaccelerator/zipball/master -O eaccelerator.zip
--2017-07-28 23:56:05--  https://github.com/eaccelerator/eaccelerator/zipball/master
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
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2017-07-28 23:56:08 (201 KB/s) - ‘ eaccelerator.zip’  saved [155679]

The download of the PHP eAccelerator is complete. Now extract the downloaded zip file by running the unzip command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#  unzip eaccelerator.zip
Archive:  eaccelerator.zip
42067ac7e2d55caa5d060580489f5043357ffbe2
creating: eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/
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 inflating: eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/win32/eAccelerator.sln 
  inflating: eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/win32/eAccelerator.vcproj 

Enter into extracted eAcclerator directory by running the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# cd eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/
[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]#

Run the ./configure command to run the downloaded application.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# ./configure
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing libtool commands

Next run the make and make install commands to install the eAccelerator application as follows.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# make
/bin/sh /root/Desktop/eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/libtool --mode=compile cc  -I. -I/root/Desktop/eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/root/Desktop/eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac/include -I/root/Desktop/eaccelerator-e
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Build complete.
Don' t forget to run ' make test' .

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# make install
Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib64/php/modules/

+-------------------------------------------------------+
|                 !!! Attention !!!                     |
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| For disk cache users (using eaccelerator.shm_only=0): |
|                                                       |
| Please remember to empty your eAccelerator disk cache |
| when upgrading, otherwise things will break!          |
+-------------------------------------------------------+

Add the following values to eAccelerator php configuration file in the following path using vim editor /etc/php.d/eaccelerator.ini. Enter the following lines in the configuration file. Save and exit the file.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# vim /etc/php.d/eaccelerator.ini
[eaccelerator]
extension=" eaccelerator.so" 
eaccelerator.shm_size = " 0" 
eaccelerator.cache_dir = " /var/cache/php-eaccelerator" 
eaccelerator.enable = " 1" 
eaccelerator.optimizer = " 1" 
eaccelerator.debug = 0
eaccelerator.log_file = " /var/log/httpd/eaccelerator_log" 
eaccelerator.name_space = " " 
eaccelerator.check_mtime = " 1" 
eaccelerator.filter = " " 
eaccelerator.shm_ttl = " 0" 
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period = " 0" 
eaccelerator.shm_only = " 0" 

Next you need to create cache directory and set up the required permissions by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# mkdir -p /var/cache/php-eaccelerator
[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# chmod 777 /var/cache/php-eaccelerator

Create the info.php file in the location /var/www/html/info.php and add following lines in info.php file. Save and exit the file.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# vim /var/www/html/info.php
< ?php
phpinfo() 
?> 

To enable a new php configuration we need to restart the web server by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp eaccelerator-eaccelerator-42067ac]# systemctl restart httpd

Open the browser and type the url as http://serverip/info.php and run it.