Hello,
Most of the sites on my servers run WordPress.
Generally on all my cPanel servers I run EasyApache with the default config and just a few additional selections.
It's always been somewhat of a sore spot that using the defaults means the WordPress sites cannot use the W3TC (W3-Total-Cache) plugin. I use WP-SuperCache instead.
I've looked at the documentation for all this before and frankly its too confusing and frustrating. (side note: I wish all these things were streamlined). Up until now, I've been able to get by without.
Today I finally had a client with a WP site that really needs to be using W3TC. The first thing W3TC is grumpy about missing is Memcache.
I'm using CentOS 7, WHM 11.52.1, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, EasyApache 3
When I went to EasyApache 3 to compile MemCache in, it is not one of the options listed (completely missing). I went to look at the docs for MemCache:
Apache Module: MemCache - EasyApache - cPanel Documentation
And to me it's pretty clear Memcache does not work with Apache 2.4!
But there is nothing that clearly indicates what to do instead.
I've also seen a lot of confusing stuff about APC - some say it's the thing to use, some say it's been replaced, others say the replacement is no good . . . ugh :-(
(Same for mod_spdy and all that. Why does the world of Apache seems to be slowly getting worse instead of better?)
I know there are many possibilities and those of you in the know build to taste, I'm sure, but does anyone have a clean recipe for adding a good (if not ideal) combination of things to a modern cPanel / Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.5 system that will permit typical WordPress sites to run happily with W3TC and all the caching it needs?
All tips or links to good articles welcome.
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Thank you.
Most of the sites on my servers run WordPress.
Generally on all my cPanel servers I run EasyApache with the default config and just a few additional selections.
It's always been somewhat of a sore spot that using the defaults means the WordPress sites cannot use the W3TC (W3-Total-Cache) plugin. I use WP-SuperCache instead.
I've looked at the documentation for all this before and frankly its too confusing and frustrating. (side note: I wish all these things were streamlined). Up until now, I've been able to get by without.
Today I finally had a client with a WP site that really needs to be using W3TC. The first thing W3TC is grumpy about missing is Memcache.
I'm using CentOS 7, WHM 11.52.1, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, EasyApache 3
When I went to EasyApache 3 to compile MemCache in, it is not one of the options listed (completely missing). I went to look at the docs for MemCache:
Apache Module: MemCache - EasyApache - cPanel Documentation
And to me it's pretty clear Memcache does not work with Apache 2.4!
But there is nothing that clearly indicates what to do instead.
I've also seen a lot of confusing stuff about APC - some say it's the thing to use, some say it's been replaced, others say the replacement is no good . . . ugh :-(
(Same for mod_spdy and all that. Why does the world of Apache seems to be slowly getting worse instead of better?)
I know there are many possibilities and those of you in the know build to taste, I'm sure, but does anyone have a clean recipe for adding a good (if not ideal) combination of things to a modern cPanel / Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.5 system that will permit typical WordPress sites to run happily with W3TC and all the caching it needs?
All tips or links to good articles welcome.
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Thank you.
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