Varnish has an offical repository so let’s add it to Yum as outlined on https://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/redhat sudo rpm –nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm sudo yum install varnish Set Varnish to start on system boot sudo chkconfig varnish on Setup DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/varnish, something like below. It will be commented out by default: DAEMON_OPTS=”-a :80 \ -T localhost:8080 \ -u varnish -g… Continue reading Setting up Varnish for Drupal on CentOS 6
Month: December 2013
Setting up memcached with Drupal 7 on Centos 6
Firstly get access to RPMForge repositories. Next install memcached: sudo yum install memcached sudo service memcached start memcached -h Check memcache stats: echo “stats settings” | nc localhost 11211 watch “echo stats | nc 127.0.0.1 11211” Configure memcache: sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/memcached Configuration details for memcache can be found here Install the PECL memcached extension for… Continue reading Setting up memcached with Drupal 7 on Centos 6
Installing RPMForge repositories on CentOS
By default CentOS Yum has a pretty poor selection of packages compared to something like Debian. So it can be a good idea to add RPMForge to get access to more up to date packages. cat /etc/redhat-release uname -a Now choose the appropriate repository for the CentOs version and architecture: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge Install the repo: wget… Continue reading Installing RPMForge repositories on CentOS