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Turns out I had installed the wrong memcached extenstion module for PHP on my local Ubuntu 10.04 server. I mistakenly installed PHP5-MEMCACHED instead of PHP5-MEMCACHE (note the missing “D”). Version number is 3.0.4-2build1.

It works now!

That’s encouraging. Now I just need to construct my php doc correctly.
Thanks!

FYI, I found AdRotate. So far it works pretty good and I can set expiration dates.

Cool thanks!

Rori: yes, similar.

I disagree too. It’s important for others to share their experiences – good and bad. If everyone kept their mouth shut how would you expect WordPress (and everything related) to improve?

Q: Why do you think WordPress even has a post comments feature?
Q: Why are there forums all over the Internet?
Q: Why are there numerous corporations/magazines/bogs/etc. serving consumer demand for knowledge?

A: To help you make informed decisions and learn something.

samboll: I see you are a moderator here. I find it puzzling that you would stifle another person’s opinion on something that is completely relevant to these forums. If people can’t express their opinion and share there knowledge here, we all might as well pack up and go home.

Lighten up will ya?

OK I got the memcached file set up. What if I need to change the amount of memory I want to use (i.e. -m 256 instead of 128) ?

I guess I need to know how to stop memcached first right?

Oh, I’m also making use of the memcache.php app you include with the plugin. That’s how I confirmed it’s working

:o)

Woohoo! I got it working! All I had to do was follow the instructions under “Memcached (daemon) Install”.

The only step I could not complete was #7 to make sure memcached starts with server reboot. When I execute this:

# touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached

I got an error – something about file not found. The path does exist but for some reason it won’t create the file?? Ideas?

I found the command I need to run:

memcached -d -m 1024 -u root -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211

Now I just need to find out where it was installed so I can run it!

frederick,

First of all I thank you for the excellent plugin! I can’t wait to unleash the full potential.

I ran a module installer in WHM/cPanel before I found your instructions. It looks like I may be using a different flavor or memcached??? My version is 2.2.5.

The install was automated so now I’m trying to figure out how to run memcached. I recycled Apache assuming memcached would start with it but I still get the error message.

Any suggestions?

wp-supercache version: 0.9.6.1
wp-postviews version: 1.5

For the wp-supercache plugin, if you have the “Don’t cache pages for logged in users.” option selected, the view counter will work. But if you log out of your blog and pretend you are a guest, the counter will NOT work because the page is cached.

I guess I’ll have to live without the wp-postviews plugin for now.

Strange, when I comment out that portion of the code and cleared cache, i could no longer access my dashboard. After I put it back, I was able to get back in. Overall my site seems quicker. Time will tell I guess.

I was able to get my VPS provider to help me out. They rebuild my Apache installation and implemented suPHP. They also took care of the file and folder permissions! All is well now ??

Thanks for your input.

Kailash1,
Fortunately I control my VPS so I can do pretty much what I want. Unfortunately I know now HOW to do it just yet. I will look into suPHP but meanwhile if you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

If I got Apache to start with an actual user ID, but have different user IDs for each account I set up on my VPS, will that not give me the same problem?

Example:
VPS id is “root”.
Account #1 is “bob”
Account #2 is “fred”

Thanks!