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Some things on eaccelerator have changed since most of the tutorials on the net was made. I noticed none of these have been updated so I figured I would post what I been doing which has not failed me yet and seems to take advantage of all options.

First find out where your php is located and import the prefix. For example most control panels and install scripts will install in /usr/local. Most package manager installed php binaries will be installed in /usr

export PHP_PREFIX=/usr/local

go to your source directory, wherever you compile your source at.

wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.3/eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2

tar xvf eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2

You will have to recompile it every time you update php so I usually make a permanent source directory for it.

mv eaccelerator-0.9.5.3 eacc

cd eacc

$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize

NOTE: Not all these options are needed for most installations but I enabled them just in case I may need.

./configure --with-php-config=/$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config --with-eaccelerator-shared-memory --with-eaccelerator-sessions --with-eaccelerator-content-caching --with-eaccelerator-disassembler

make ; make install

After install it will spit out where it installed it at. You need to copy that and then go in php.ini and set your extension_dir to that. For example it would be something like:
/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

You will want to add eaccelerator as regular extension instead of zend extension. I am not sure the performance difference, but I have never noticed a difference. If you install it as a zend extension then you will have problems if you try to activate ioncube loaders with zend optimizer.

First make your cache directory, it can get big so make sure you put it in a partition with enough space. Here is an example comfig. Do not just use this config, make sure it is viable for your system. This is for a system with 4-8gb ram but I would suppose it would work ok as long as you had plenty of free memory.

extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="64"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="/var/cache/eacc"
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"

And thats it, test everything and make sure its ok. Some sites will have problems with this so if that happens have them add this to their .htaccess

php_flag eaccelerator.enable 0
php_flag eaccelerator.optimizer 0

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