How to install PHP Memcache on Windows WAMP, Linux for any operating system (without really installing)
January 11th, 2012
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I have a site that runs on Linux in production that uses Memcache. Installing Memcache on Linux is a cinch. I was setting this site up in my development environment however (Windows 7 64-bit, with WAMP, specifically Apache 2 and PHP 5.3) and I quickly discovered it’s not so easy. For the life of me, I could not find the correct php_memcache.dll file.
After spending a ton of time unsuccessfully install Memcache on my local machine, I realized that I don’t even need the memory caching functionality of Memcache, I just need the functions to work. Read more…