Memcached installation, memcached.so missing

[postcd]

Im lost in Memcached installation on my cpanel centos server.

I have Memcached ticked in EasyApache, also its amongs the extensions in php config:
extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613"
zend_extension = "/usr/local/IonCube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so"
zend_extension = "/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.9/php-5.2.x/ZendOptimizer.so"
extension = "xcache.so"
extension = "memcached.so"

When i do /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l

i see its included: mod_mem_cache.c (or isnt it memcached?)

In directory /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ there is memcached.so missing

My website error log shows:
[11-Feb-2012 18:17:42] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/memcached.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/memcached.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[11-Feb-2012 18:17:42] PHP Fatal error: Cannot open or create file set by xcache.mmap_path, check the path permission or check xcache.size/var_size against system limitation in Unknown on line 0
[11-Feb-2012 18:17:42] PHP Fatal error: XCache: Cannot create shm in Unknown on line 0

Please how can i install memcached now?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Check to see if the "memcached.so" file exists at the referenced location:

/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/memcached.so

If it does not exist at that location, check to see if it exists within the following directory:

/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

If it does, try moving the file to the "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613" location and restarting Apache.

Thank you.

 

[postcd]

Thank you, memcached.so is NOT in any of the above 2 locations.

 

[cPanelTristan]

EasyApache MemCache is the Apache module rather than the PHP module as we do not list or provide the PHP module there. When you compile EasyApache with the MemCache Apache module, you end up with it available via Apache only not via PHP.

For the PHP module, what steps were taken to install it manually, since that would be the only way to install it? Please try the following steps if you hadn't already (and if you had, you likely lost memcached.so when recompiling PHP via EasyApache since it was a custom installed module):

wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.17-stable.tar.gz --no-check-certificate
tar -xvf libevent-2.0.17-stable.tar.gz 
cd libevent-2.0.17-stable
./configure
make && make install
cd ~
wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.13.tar.gz
tar -xzf memcached-1.4.13.tar.gz 
cd memcached-1.4.13
./configure
make && make install

After installing these components, then create the following file:
(if using 32-bit machine)

echo "/usr/local/lib/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-i386.conf

(if using 64-bit machine)

echo "/usr/local/lib/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf

Run the following:

ldconfig
memcached -d -u nobody -m 1024 127.0.0.1 -p 11211

Now, install libmemcached:

cd ~
wget http://launchpad.net/libmemcached/1.0/1.0.4/+download/libmemcached-1.0.4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libmemcached-1.0.4.tar.gz 
cd libmemcached-1.0.4
./configure
make && make install
pecl install memcached

Then run the following to check if memcached.so is installed into /usr/local/lib/php.ini file and add it if is it not:

grep -q "memcached.so" /usr/local/lib/php.ini || echo 'extension=memcached.so' >> /usr/local/lib/php.ini

You can check the extension directory you are using and whether it is in it using this line:

for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do ls -lah $i/memcache* ;done

Also, to preserve the memcached.so module on EasyApache recompiles, this needs to be done as well:

for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do cp $i/memcached.so /root ;done
for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do echo -e '#!/bin/bash\ncp /root/memcached.so' "$i\ngrep -q 'memcached.so' /usr/local/lib/php.ini || echo 'extension=memcached.so' >> /usr/local/lib/php.ini\n/etc/init.d/httpd restart" > /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/posteasyapache ;done
chmod +x /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/posteasyapache

This will create a posteasyapache script that will ensure memcached.so is copied from /root/memcached.so back into the php extension directory.

I followed the above details, and it shows up installed onto my machine:

root@host [~]# php -i | grep -i memcached
memcached
memcached support => enabled
libmemcached version => 1.0.4
Registered save handlers => files user sqlite memcached

Thanks!

 

[santrix]

I've read this thread with interest. However, I'm unsure from what I have read if the solution posted by cPanelTristan for installing the PHP extension/so is necessary if installing MemCache using easyapache. cPanelTristan seems to indicate that the EA installation of Memcache (being referenced only in the apache section) does not install the PHP extension, and installs an apache module only.

I'm confused because at the start of the thread after postcd stated he was lost in EasyApache, cPanelMichael asked if the PHP extensions had, in fact, been installed...

I suspect this is simply an oversight, but before I go installing memcached PHP extensions on our servers, I would like to know if this should be done manually as detailed by cPanelTristan, or if they should in fact get installed, allbeit atypically, via the apache module memcache installer (as a bonus!)

Cheers

 

[cPanelMichael]

We do not provide MemCache as a PHP module via EasyApache. However, it's possible to install it as a custom PHP module using the method that Tristan provided.

Thank you.

 

[grava69]

I have followed your instructions to install memcahe in PHP but when I reached the point where you say:
"You shoudl also find the file in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626
Code:
ls -lah /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcached.so "
the file doesn't exist

I have attached a screenshot of where I was stuck.

Also in your instructions you say:
"After installing these components, then create the following file:
(if using 32-bit machine)
Code:
vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-i386.conf
(if using 64-bit machine)
Code:
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf "

In my 64-bit machine should I just create an empty file like that?
pico /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf

Please let me know where I might be wrong. Thanks

 

[cPanelTristan]

Are you using PHP 5.2? If you are, then the directory for /usr/local/lib/php/extensions will have 2006 rather than 2009 in it. You can find the extension directory being used in your global php.ini file:

grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Check that directory for the file.

If you are on a 64-bit machine, you'd create the file as the instructions indicate you would, yes.

 

[grava69]

My PHP Version is 5.3.10. It has 2009 in it. Any idea? Thanks

 

[cPanelTristan]

Not if all the instructions were followed in the order noted. Since the file noted that needed to be created was before the installation, did you create the file (your response indicates that /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf was possibly not created during the instructions). If it was not created, then the components won't properly install.

 

[grava69]

I did created /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf
I opened it and it was empty.
I just went through the steps again
When I reached : memcached -d -u nobody -m 1024 127.0.0.1 -p 11211
I got the error you see in the screenshot

 

[cPanelTristan]

That error indicates libevent isn't being found. Did you receive an error when installing it? It was the very first steps of all of those noted.

Did this error not happen previously? I don't see how re-running the steps in the correct order would cause that command to suddenly fail when it worked before.

 

[grava69]

I see nowhere giving me an error when I went through the first steps:

wget github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.17-stable.tar.gz --no-check-certificate
tar -xvf libevent-2.0.17-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.17-stable
./configure
make && make install

The file libevent-2.0.so.5 does exist in the .libs folder within libevent-2.0.17-stable, but why it cannot be found?

I have attached part of the ls in the .libs folder where you can see the file.

 

[cPanelTristan]

That is not the folder after it is configured. The folder after it is configured with the ./configure command and make && make install would be /usr/local/lib one:

root@host [/usr/local/lib]# ls -lah libevent-2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 May  9 08:04 libevent-2.0.so.5 -> libevent-2.0.so.5.1.5*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 946K May  9 08:04 libevent-2.0.so.5.1.5*

You can even run whereis libevent to see this listing:

root@host [/usr/local/lib]# whereis libevent
libevent: /usr/local/lib/libevent.la /usr/local/lib/libevent.so /usr/local/lib/libevent.a

 

[grava69]

Yes, the file exists:

root@64-150-181-16 [/libevent-2.0.17-stable/.libs]# cd /usr/local/lib
root@64-150-181-16 [/usr/local/lib]# whereis libevent
libevent: /usr/local/lib/libevent.la /usr/local/lib/libevent.so /usr/local/lib/libevent.a
root@64-150-181-16 [/usr/local/lib]# ls -lah libevent-2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 8 17:54 libevent-2.0.so.5 -> libevent-2.0.so.5.1.5*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 940K May 8 15:21 libevent-2.0.so.5.1.4*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 947K May 8 17:54 libevent-2.0.so.5.1.5*

but I still get this error after ldconfig:
root@64-150-181-16 [~/memcached-1.4.13]# ldconfig
root@64-150-181-16 [~/memcached-1.4.13]# memcached -d -u nobody -m 1024 127.0.0.1 -p 11211
memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

actually this error was there from the first time I went through the steps but I ignored it
and went through the following steps. I have no idea what to do now.

 

[cPanelTristan]

All right, try the following and I'm revising the guide for this portion:

echo "/usr/local/lib/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-x86_64.conf
ldconfig
memcached -d -u nobody -m 1024 127.0.0.1 -p 11211

Then follow the rest of the guide and let us know of any further errors. Please do not ignore errors.

 

[cPanelTristan]

Of note, it appears the newer PHP is not adding memcached.so to /usr/local/lib/php.ini (I had no trouble of it adding the memcached.so to /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626 though). Here are revisions on those prior steps:

grep -q "memcached.so" /usr/local/lib/php.ini || echo 'extension=memcached.so' >> /usr/local/lib/php.ini

You can check the extension directory you are using and whether it is in it using this line:

for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do ls -lah $i/memcache* ;done

This takes out the ability for the user to not know which they are using as it pulls it from the php.ini file.

Also, to preserve the memcached.so module on EasyApache recompiles, this needs to be done as well:

for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do cp $i/memcached.so /root ;done
for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do echo -e '#!/bin/bash\ncp /root/memcached.so' "$i\ngrep -q 'memcached.so' /usr/local/lib/php.ini || echo 'extension=memcached.so' >> /usr/local/lib/php.ini\n/etc/init.d/httpd restart" > /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/posteasyapache ;done
chmod +x /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/posteasyapache

This will create a posteasyapache script that will ensure memcached.so is copied from /root/memcached.so back into the php extension directory.

I didn't do the above type of commands when I originally created the steps as I didn't know how to do these things back then. I know a lot more now.

 

[grava69]

Everything fine up to this point where i get this error:

root@64-150-181-16 [~/libmemcached-1.0.4]# for i in `grep ^extension_dir /usr/local/lib/php.ini | awk {'print $3'} | cut -d\" -f2` ;do ls -lah $i/memcache* ;done
/bin/ls: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache*: No such file or directory

 

[cPanelTristan]

The component still didn't install while it did on my system. You received no errors when running "pecl install memcached"?

Please re-run the pecl installation command for memcached and provide the last 10 or so lines.

 

[grava69]

It says is already installed:

root@64-150-181-16 [~/libmemcached-1.0.4]# pecl install memcached
pecl/memcached is already installed and is the same as the released version 2.0.1
install failed