Install eAccelerator in Debian 6
1. Download and Extract eAccelerator package
# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.debiantutorials.com/static/eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2
# tar -xvjf eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2
2. Prepare for compiling it
# apt-get install php5-dev make
# cd eaccelerator-0.9.6.1
# phpize
3. To Compile
# ./configure
# make
# make install
4. Add configuration for eAccelerator
# vi /etc/php5/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini
extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="16"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="/var/cache/eaccelerator"
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"
5.Create the cache directory
# mkdir -p /var/cache/eaccelerator
# chmod 0777 /var/cache/eaccelerator
6. Restart Apache2
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
