[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] eAccelerator installed and checked, W3TC says no …

@marky_uk

eAccelerator removed user cache functions in the 0.9.6 branch. You will need to install version 0.9.5.3 if you want it to work with W3 Total Cache. You can compile from source using the install instructions in the plugin.

Hi there ??

Thanks for taking time to reply.

I’m a bit thrown by your response though – I’m looking for something that’s new/maintained as opposed to something so old. Perhaps I shouldn’t be looking to implement eAccelerator at all and look at XCache or APC (if I could find a build for Windows!) ?

Marky_UK

@marky_uk,

The new eAccelerator versions still work in the background you just can’t define any user cache settings.

XCache has Windows binary builds https://xcache.lighttpd.net/wiki/InstallFromBinary

Not sure about APC for windows but it being maintained and will be included in the next major version of php.

Hi there

You say eAccelerator still works … I saw no speed improvements, and couldn’t choose it from the W3TC config screens … so despite Apache config/info screens telling me it was there, it looked like W3TC wasn’t using it … if that makes sense?

And re xcache – I’m running php5.3.3 and just tried the install for Windows and PHP 5.3.0 and it’s failed (php -v giving runtime errors and not finding the dll despite it being there) so not sure if I should now downgrade php to a previous version and get another dll !

Marky_UK

W3 won’t use your eAccelerator but php will. W3 won’t be able to detect or use it at all.

I have not experience working with Windows servers my only suggestion would be to move over to Linux.

I wanted to ad that you will probably need to remove eAccelerator before Xcache will work.

Hi there

I have removed eAccelerator – does anyone know of a guide that recommends implementing W3 Total Cache on a Windows platform with a suitable caching technology? I’ve not seen one. If I ever get it working I will probably write one myself on our blog to give to others!

This is REALLY hard you know. No APC cache build that works, managed to find an eAccelerator build that works and PHP and Apache love … but W3 Total Cache doesn’t like it .. and XCache, as of late yesterday fails to work as I’ve said above.

The other problem I’ve got in another thread re the permissions or something about PREVIEW always showing up (not able to DEPLOY) means I’m not seeing any minified code – so it’s a nice looking admin tool just now but nothing else ??

So at the moment, I’m 10 days down using W3 Total Cache and it’s just not worth having it on!

Hmmmm!

Marky_UK

OK – comment update time!

I’VE GOT W3 TOTAL CACHE WORKING WITH XCACHE. If anyone wants to know, let me know, and I’ll either post on here on our LogicSpot blog

Now just got to fix:

Memcache: Not installed
Mime type detection: Not installed

And the preview mode issue with Windows – cannot deploy!

I will raise separate topics in here for each so I don’t hijack this thread off-topic ??

Marky_UK

The other way to deploy is check the box that says: Deselect this option to disable all caching functionality. Then click the disable deploy and save changes.

You don’t need memcahe if your using Xcache.

For mime type detection use fileinfo. Windows instructions are at the bottom of this page: https://www.php.net/manual/en/fileinfo.installation.php

W3TC checks to see if it can store an object in the memory store if it fails, it disables the option. So the checking mechanism is quite simple. Glad you figured it out.