Memcached is a high performance storage engine designed for storing chunks for data, so it is great for storing sessions in it. The upside of doing this you notice a performance benefit from not writing these disk or a database is that you gain a performance increase. The downside is that memcached isn\u2019t saving anything, so if memcached restarts all of the users will need to login again.<\/p>\n
This guide assumes you have a working installation. If you do not please see How to install Memcached.<\/a><\/p>\n Make sure the memcache PHP extension is installed<\/p>\n php -i|grep memcache<\/p>\n If nothing returns go ahead and install it:<\/p>\n pecl install memcache<\/p>\n Find the location of your php.ini<\/p>\n # php -i|grep “Loaded Configuration File” Open the php.ini file and add the following line at the top:<\/p>\n extension=”memcache.so”<\/p>\n You will want to edit your php.ini again and find the following lines:<\/p>\n session.save_handler = You will then want to update them to the following and uncomment them:<\/p>\n session.save_handler = memcache The reason we selected the PHP extension memcache vs memcached, is that the memcached extension is not available in PHP 7. Go ahead and save the file.<\/p>\n Restart your webserver<\/p>\n service nginx restart<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n service httpd restart<\/p>\n And your session data should now be stored in memcached<\/p>\n Aug 6, 2017LinuxAdmin.io<\/p>\nConfigure PHP for Memcache<\/h2>\n
\nLoaded Configuration File => \/usr\/local\/php7\/etc\/php.ini<\/p>\nConfigure PHP To Store Session Data In Memcached<\/h2>\n
\nsession.save_path =<\/p>\n
\nsession.save_path = ‘tcp:\/\/127.0.0.1.1:11211’<\/p>\n