Support for PHP APC (PECL)

[dancryer]

PHP APC has finally seen another stable release, made just this month. I was just wondering if there's any chance of seeing support for it in cPanel soon?

PECL :: Package :: APC

I think it'd be very beneficial, and a good alternative to eAccellerator.

[dibarra]

You can already install it though:

# pecl install apc

Or, for those with /tmp mounted as noexec:

# wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.6.tgz
# tar -xvzf APC-3.1.6.tgz
# cd APC-3.1.6
# phpize
# ./configure
# make
# make install

[cPanelDavidG]

PHP APC has finally seen another stable release, made just this month. I was just wondering if there's any chance of seeing support for it in cPanel soon?

PECL :: Package :: APC

I think it'd be very beneficial, and a good alternative to eAccellerator.

Are you experiencing difficulties installing this PECL using WHM's interface for installing PECLs?

[jsedwick]

I'm unsuccessfully attempting to install APC from WHM and I'm getting the following output:

downloading APC-3.1.6.tgz ...
Starting to download APC-3.1.6.tgz (148,835 bytes)
.................................done: 148,835 bytes
49 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20041225
Zend Module Api No:      20060613
Zend Extension Api No:   220060519
Enable per request file info about files used from the APC cache [no] : Enable spin locks (EXPERIMENTAL) [no] : building in /root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6
running: /root/tmp/pear/APC/configure --enable-apc-filehits=no --enable-apc-spinlocks=no
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr/local
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/local/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... re2c
checking for re2c version... invalid
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether to enable APC support... yes, shared
checking whether we should enable cache request file info... no
checking whether we should use mmap... yes
checking whether we should use semaphore locking instead of fcntl... no
checking whether we should use pthread mutex locking... yes
pthread mutex's are supported!
checking whether we should use spin locks... no
checking whether we should enable memory protection... no
checking for zend_set_lookup_function_hook... no
checking for sigaction... yes
checking for union semun... no
checking whether we should enable valgrind support... checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
yes
checking valgrind/memcheck.h usability... no
checking valgrind/memcheck.h presence... no
checking for valgrind/memcheck.h... no
checking for shm_open in -lrt... yes
checking for ld used by cc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from cc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no

creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
running: make
/bin/sh /root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6/libtool --mode=compile cc  -I. -I/root/tmp/pear/APC -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6/include -I/root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6/main -I/root/tmp/pear/APC -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -g -O2   -c /root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c -o apc.lo
mkdir .libs
 cc -I. -I/root/tmp/pear/APC -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6/include -I/root/tmp/pear-build-root/APC-3.1.6/main -I/root/tmp/pear/APC -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c /root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/apc.o
In file included from /root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:45: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:46: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:52: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:369: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_compile_array':
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:430: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:430: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:431: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:431: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_match_array':
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:463: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:463: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:464: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:464: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
make: *** [apc.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed
The APC.so object is not in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[cPanelDavidG]

In this situation, I recommend submitting a support ticket so we can diagnose what is causing this installation to fail.

[WebScHoLaR]

I'm unsuccessfully attempting to install APC from WHM and I'm getting the following output:

/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:45: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:46: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/local/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:52: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:369: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_compile_array':
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:430: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:430: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:431: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:431: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_match_array':
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:463: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:463: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:464: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/root/tmp/pear/APC/apc.c:464: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
make: *** [apc.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed
The APC.so object is not in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

You need to install pcre-devel package and it will be installed fine. Just install it as:

yum install pcre-devel

and then you will be able to install it from WHM or using "pecl install apc"

[cPanelDavidG]

I am moving this thread out of the Feature Request forum since this is supported, but may not be working as desired on your specific system.