eAccelerator, APC & friends on Shared

[jjaguara]

Hi folks, Do you use some sort of cache/optimizers in your semi-ded setup? I know that you have pretty robust servers, but anyway.

If not is it possible to add it through the personalized php.ini files on our own directory?

Cheers,
Andres

[Rob]

Zend Optimizer and Ion Cube Loaders are both installed.

[Vin DSL]

And, I use GZIP compression on my sites...

For instance:

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_te...xlbm9uLmNvbQ==

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_te...xlbm9uLmluZm8=

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_te...aW5 fUGFnZQ==

[jjaguara]

Thanks Rob, so I guess there's nothing to mess with on my end.

VinDSL: mod_gzip isn't enabled by default on semi-ded, how do I do it?

[Vin DSL]

VinDSL: mod_gzip isn't enabled by default on semi-ded, how do I do it?

First of all, I turn on zlib output compression in the php.ini file - I *think* that's the default setting, but it never hurts to check.

From there, it all depends on the proggie...

For instance, in Nuke I insert this into the headers:

$phpver = phpversion();
if ($phpver >= '4.0.4pl1')
{
    ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
    }else if ($phpver > '4.0'){
    if (strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip')){
        if (extension_loaded('zlib')){
            $do_gzip_compress = TRUE;
            ob_start();
            ob_implicit_flush(0);
            }
        }
    } 

Heh! Just realized...

I guess I could clean that up now, since PHP4 is supposedly dead and about to be buried!

Anyway, then I put this into the footers:

$contents = ob_get_contents(); // store buffer in $contents
ob_end_clean(); // delete output buffer and stop buffering 

Simple pimple, huh?

You just gotta be careful NOT to send the headers twice, or your site will start throwing errors...

[Gwaihir]

AFAIK you can ask support to enable mod_gzip too, if you want it.

On SDX a cache like APC may well make sense. Then again, perhaps the extra complexity just isn't worth it for JagPC. I don't think you can't install and enable such yourself. If it's there, a phpinfo() will show you.