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Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system,

generic in nature, but originally intended for use in speeding up dynamic web
applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is a very useful also in
other cases, than only dynamic web applications.

This guide explains howto install Memcached 1.4.15/1.4.17/1.4.36 stable version of distributed
memory object caching system on Fedora 26/25/24/23/22/21/20 and CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL)
7.3/6.9/5.11. Fedora 24/23/22/21/20/19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 7/6 and Red Hat
(RHEL) 7/6 has Memcached on default repos, so extra repositories is not needed.

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1. Install Memcached 1.4.15/1.4.17/1.4.36 on

Fedora 26/25/24/23, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)
7.3/6.9/5.11

1.1 Install Remi repository (not needed on Fedora

26/25/24/23/22/21 and CentOS/RHEL 7/6):
Bash

## Remi Dependency on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

1.2 Install Memcached package

Fedora 26/25/24/23

Bash

dnf install memcached

CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.9

Bash

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yum install memcached

CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 5.11

Bash

yum --enablerepo=remi install memcached

1.3 Con gure memcached

Most important value to con gure is CACHESIZE, which is cache size on Megabytes. Example
Following con guration use 512 Mb memory for Memcached. Edit le
/etc/syscon g/memcached.

Bash

PORT="11211"
USER="memcached"
MAXCONN="1024"
CACHESIZE="512"
OPTIONS=""

1.4 Start Memcached

Fedora 26/25/24/23 and CentOS/RHEL 7.3

Bash

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systemctl start memcached.service ## use restart after update

systemctl enable memcached.service

CentOS/RHEL 6.9/5.11

Bash

# Set Memcached to start automatically on boot

chkconfig memcached on
# Start Memcached
/etc/init.d/memcached start
## OR ##
service memcached start

1.5 Check that Memcached is Running and Working

Bash

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echo stats | nc localhost 11211

STAT pid 7599
STAT uptime 10
STAT time 1265288542
STAT version 1.4.4
STAT pointer_size 32
STAT rusage_user 0.003999
STAT rusage_system 0.052991
STAT curr_connections 10
STAT total_connections 11
STAT connection_structures 11
STAT cmd_get 0
STAT cmd_set 0
STAT cmd_flush 0
STAT get_hits 0
STAT get_misses 0
STAT delete_misses 0
STAT delete_hits 0
STAT incr_misses 0
STAT incr_hits 0
STAT decr_misses 0
STAT decr_hits 0
STAT cas_misses 0
STAT cas_hits 0
STAT cas_badval 0
STAT auth_cmds 0
STAT auth_errors 0
STAT bytes_read 6
STAT bytes_written 0
STAT limit_maxbytes 536870912
STAT accepting_conns 1
STAT listen_disabled_num 0
STAT threads 4
STAT conn_yields 0
STAT bytes 0
STAT curr_items 0
STAT total_items 0
STAT evictions 0
END

# Try to get some value

echo get some_value | nc localhost 11211
END

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# Not found, but check the stats again

echo stats | nc localhost 11211
STAT pid 7599
STAT uptime 10
STAT time 1265288542
STAT version 1.4.4
[...]
STAT cmd_get 1
STAT cmd_set 0
STAT cmd_flush 0
STAT get_hits 0
STAT get_misses 1
STAT delete_misses 0
[...]
STAT evictions 0
END

Everything working nice. Then its time to test memcache example with some web application.

2. Open Memcached Port (11211) on Iptables

Firewall (If the Memcached will also be used other
local servers)

2.1 CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.9/5.11

Edit /etc/syscon g/iptables le:

Bash
nano -w /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add following INPUT line:

Bash
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 11211 -j ACCEPT

Restart Iptables Firewall:

Bash
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service iptables restart

## OR ##
/etc/init.d/iptables restart

2.2 Fedora 26/25/24/23 and CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7.3

List Your Active Firewalld Zones:

Bash
firewall-cmd --get-active-zones

Example output:

Bash

public
interfaces: wlp1s0

Add New Rule to Firewalld:

You might have active zone like public, FedoraWorkstation, FedoraServer.

Bash
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add --port=11211/tcp

Restart rewalld.service:

Bash

systemctl restart firewalld.service

2.3 Test remote connection:

Bash
echo stats | nc memcache_host_name_or_ip 11211

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3. Install Memcache and/or Memcached PHP

Module on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)
More information about Memcache Module
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.memcache.php).
More information about Memcached Module
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.memcached.php).

3.1 Install Memcache Module and PHP

Bash

## Fedora 26/25/24/23 ##
dnf install php php-pecl-memcache

## CentOS/RHEL 7.3/6.9/5.11 ##
yum install php php-pecl-memcache

3.2 Install Memcached Module and PHP

Bash

## Fedora 26/25/24/23 ##
dnf install php php-pecl-memcached

## CentOS/RHEL 7.3/6.9/5.11 ##
yum install php php-pecl-memcached

3.3 Restart Web server

Bash

## Fedora 26/25/24/23 and CentOS/RHEL 7.3 ##

systemctl restart httpd.service

## CentOS/RHEL 6.9/5.11 ##
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
## OR ##
service httpd restart

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