Install memcached on CentOS 7

To install memcached on CentOS 7, run

yum -y install memcached

1	yum -y install memcached

Set memcached to start on boot

systemctl enable memcached

1	systemctl enable memcached

Start memcached with

systemctl start memcached

1	systemctl start memcached

Installing PHP Module

You need remi repository installed, that provide memcached module for all versions of php they support.

For PHP 5.6, run

yum install php-memcache

1	yum install php-memcache

Now phpinfo() will show

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