Installing Memcached on Debian 11

The following guide describes how to install Memcached on a Debian system 11.
Memcached is a data and object caching system, which can significantly reduce the time needed to obtain data from the database by caching them.

The following guide is a perfect complement to our server LAMP in order to accelerate it.

We start the terminal

we are installing the memcached package

apt-get install memcached libmemcached-tools -y

apt-get install python3-pymemcache libcache-memcached-libmemcached-perl -y

We run it in the system:
systemctl start memcached

systemctl enable memcached

We check the status of the service:

systemctl status memcached

Now we will do the configuration.

Basic Memcached configuration

The Memcached configuration file is /etc/memcached.conf.
Basic configuration parameters:

-m - the maximum amount of memory dedicated to Memcached. (by default: 64 MB)
-p - The port on which Memcached is listening. (by default: 11211)
-l - IP address on which the Memcached service is listening by default localhost (127.0.0.1). To listen on all interfaces use 0.0.0.0.

we configure as follows:

nano /etc/memcached.conf

-l 127.0.0.1
-U 0
-p 11211
-u memcache
-m 2000

After making the changes, we restart the service:

systemctl restart memcached

We install the memcached extension for PHP in the system.

apt-get install php-memcached

Memcached should now be available on php.info and should work fine on the server.

We are also reloading the Apache server.

service apache2 restart

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