Install memcached daemon with command

yum install Memcached

Enable memcached to start on boot

systemctl enable memcached

Start memcached

systemctl start memcached

You can verify if memcached is running with the command “netstat -lntp”

[root@server ~]# netstat -lntp |grep memcachetcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11211           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      129472/memcached    tcp6       0      0 :::11211                :::*                    LISTEN      129472/memcached [root@server ~]#

By default Memcached listen on all interfaces (0.0.0.0:11211). You need to make it bind to 127.0.0.1 only, so no one will be able to access your Memcached installation from the public. For securing Memcached installation, refer How to secure Memcached on CentOS 7. After Memcached is secured, you will see it listen on 127.0.0.1 only like the following

[root@server etc]# netstat -lntp | grep mem
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:11211         0.0.0.0:*              LISTEN      81636/memcached     
[root@server etc]#

Install memcached PHP Module

Install the requirements

yum install -y libmemcached-devel zlib-devel

Replace default system PHP with PHP version on which you need memcache PHP module installed. In this case, I will be installing the PHP module for PHP version 7.4

cd /usr/binmv php php.oldmv phpize phpize.oldln -s /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/phpln -s /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/phpize

Now run the command

/opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/pecl install memcached

If you get error related to phpize missing, you need to install PHP devel package.

yum install plesk-php74-devel

After install finished, you need to edit php.ini

vi /opt/plesk/php/7.4/etc/php.ini

At end of the file, add

extension=memcached.so

Restart php-fpm

systemctl restart plesk-php74-fpm.service

Install memcache module

the latest version of memcache won’t work with PHP 7.4, so we need to use an older version.

To install version 4.0.5.2 of memcache, run

/opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/pecl install memcache-4.0.5.2

After installing, edit php.ini file

vi /opt/plesk/php/7.4/etc/php.ini

At end of the file, add

extension=memcache.so

Restart php-fpm

systemctl restart plesk-php74-fpm.service