Install Memcached on Debian 11 bullseye
Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory-caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source must be read. Memcached is free and open-source software, licensed under the Revised BSD license and it is a popular choice for powering real-time applications in Web, Mobile Apps, Gaming, Ad-Tech, and E-Commerce.
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Step 1: Install Memcached
First we will update repository index using apt
sudo apt updateMemcached is available in base debian 11 repositories.
sudo apt install memcached libmemcached-toolsNow you can verify the status of service.
sudo systemctl status memcachedoutput:
● memcached.service - memcached daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/memcached.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-10-22 05:13:55 PDT; 57s ago
Docs: man:memcached(1)
Main PID: 2390 (memcached)
Tasks: 10 (limit: 1718)
Memory: 5.4M
CPU: 91ms
CGroup: /system.slice/memcached.service
└─2390 /usr/bin/memcached -m 64 -p 11211 -u memcache -l 127.0.0.1 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid
By default, memcached listens on port 11211 and you can verify as below.
sudo netstat -pnltuoutput:
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:11211 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2390/memcached
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 443/sshd: /usr/sbin
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 443/sshd: /usr/sbin
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Step 2: configure memcached
Memcached options can be configured in the /etc/memcached.conf file.Default settings are enough for most users. if you want to configure remote connection follow below steps.
To allow remote connections to the server,you need to configure your firewall and allow access to Memcached UDP port 11211 only from trusted clients.
For example, server ip address is 192.168.0.100 and your client system ipaddress is 192.168.0.150.then open conf file and replace the server ip.
sudo vi /etc/memcached.confFind the line that begins with -l 127.0.0.1 and replace with the server IP address 192.168.0.100 in place of 127.0.0.1
-l 192.168.0.100save and close the file. Then restart the Memcached process to take effect.
sudo systemctl restart memcachedTo allow the client machine access to the Memcached server, allow the client machine ip in firewall.
sudo ufw allow from 10.128.0.150 to any port 11211In addition, we can specify multiple addresses separated by comma.
Next, reload the firewall for the changes
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Step 3: Enable memcached for php
To use Memcached as a caching database for your PHP application,you need to install the php-memcached extension.
sudo apt install php-memcachedoutput:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
php-common php-igbinary php-msgpack php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-opcache php7.4-phpdbg php7.4-readline
Suggested packages:
php-pear
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php-common php-igbinary php-memcached php-msgpack php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-opcache php7.4-phpdbg php7.4-readline
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,318 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
once it is installed, restart the webserver to take effect of extension.
That's it. Now we have successfully installed memcached on Debian 11 system.
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