Complete installation guide to provide APC or any cache handler

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konrad1811's picture

Hello.

I create this issue after spending some hours of searchin any complete "to do list" which will tell all steps how to provide Authenticated User Cache and make it as fast as possible.

As far as I know by know there are 2 user-kind of cache:

  1. Anonymous - which is pretty easy to provide (boost module is quite enough).
    However probably some cache handler and additional non-drupal software lik APC and other can give greater performance

  2. Authenticated Cache
    There is a module like "AuthCache".
    However
    to make it really working fast you need to get some cache handler like Mamcache or CacheRouter, or other module.
    And a cache handler like CacheRouter is only a kind of API.
    To make html cache in place of database cache (which is AuthCache default) you need to install APC or eAccelerator which are not part of drupal and server-side action is required.
    But it's even worse - before all these greate boosters you need to install some libraries - like PECL library.
    And there was little I understood on some php sites which let to download PECL :/

And all these you got to do before even configuring your drupal cache... :/

Does anyone know any complete tutorial for medium-advanced drupallers 6.x ?

PS
I'm little bit programist, but rather drupal administrator. Used a lot of modules. Sometimes custom php changes. Some linux knowledge. Currenlty running a couple of drupal sites on rented VPS router server.
But still not profecionalist in all server-side issues.

High performance

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