Installing memcached to use it with php

Installing Memcached with php support in Ubuntu is a matter of a few steps: sudo apt-get install memcached php5-memcached sudo service apache2 restart You can test if memcached is active by running this command: echo "stats settings" | nc localhost 11211 You will end up with a response like this one:

STAT maxbytes 67108864 STAT maxconns 1024 STAT tcpport 11211 STAT udpport 11211 STAT inter 127.0.0.1 ... STAT item_size_max 1048576 STAT maxconns_fast no STAT hashpower_init 0 STAT slab_reassign no STAT slab_automove 0 END