APCu with PHP7 on Dreamhost

Download & unpack APCu

# Edit the APCu version as needed.
$ APCU_VERSION='5.1.15'; \
curl -s https://pecl.php.net/get/apcu-${APCU_VERSION}.tgz | tar xzvf - && \
cd apcu-${APCU_VERSION}

phpize with PHP7, then configure, make, and copy into the extension directory

# Edit PHP_VERSION as needed.
$ export PHP_VERSION='7.1'; \
/usr/local/php$(echo $PHP_VERSION | tr -d '.')/bin/phpize && \
./configure && \
make && \
mkdir -p ~/.php/${PHP_VERSION}/extensions && \
cp modules/apcu.so ${HOME}/.php/${PHP_VERSION}/extensions

Enable the extension in the corresponding phprc file:

$ echo "extension='${HOME}/.php/${PHP_VERSION}/extensions/apcu.so'" >> ${HOME}/.php/${PHP_VERSION}/phprc

Kill fcgi processes to force config reload:

$ killall -9 php$(echo $PHP_VERSION | tr -d '.').cgi

Comments

Thank you, that works perfectly on Dreamhost! :)

For me, on php 7.2, I needed to make a change: When I ran "./configure && \" I got an error that php-config is misssing, so I had to run: ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php72/bin/php-config && \ Also, the first line of that same step is /usr/local/php72/bin/phpize && \

Interesting. It worked for me as-is with PHP7.2.

It's not working on PHP7.3, though. Appears to be an issue with APCu BC, and I was unable to install both of them in a way that worked.

Thanks for these awesome directions! I just wanted to echo what David said, I got the same error: "configure: error: Cannot find php-config. Please use --with-php-config=PATH" So I replaced the line with the line he had posted: ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php72/bin/php-config && \ I'm sorry that I couldn't figure out how line breaks worked, I tried html and a bbcode BR and neither worked, neither did single or double spacing return a line break. Now it's just one long line hard to read comment. :( Anyways, This should be a DreamHost wiki page!

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