How to Install Memcached in Windows 7 / WAMP ?

                 On our last article we have discussed about server side javascript Node.js. Today I am going to explain you how to install Memcache in Windows system. Presently a days, loads of notable sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Youtube are utilizing open source, high performance distributed memory object caching. Which is known as Memcached. Mostly people are comfortable with windows and they are intrigued to create application in windows environment only. So here is an article to tell you the best way to install Memcached into Windows 7 (WAMP). 

             I am using WAMP server 2.1 and PHP version 5.3 in my system. I am going to tell you in step by step process.

   Step 1 :  

                 First of all you need to download memcached-1.2.6-win32-bin.zip. I search a lot and at last got the appropriate package, which you can download from here.

   Step 2 :

                  Then you need to unzip the package and you will get memcached.exe. Now what you need to do is, paste it in your directory. I have paste it in my E:\memcache\memcached.exe. and my wamp server also in E drive.

   Step 3 :
                 Now open the folder and right click on the memcached.exe and run as administrator. As we are utilizing Windows you can easily find out that option when you right click on the memcached.exe.

   Step 4:

                 Now it’s time to install the memcached in server. To do that, Just open your command prompt as administrator settings and type the path of your executable file and space and –d install then hit enter.

For your reference ,

  D:\> your path memcached.exe –d start

For further reference look at the screenshot which I added below,

You may face a error as below screenshot “The program can't install because MSVCR71.dll is missing from your computer .“ 

                            

   Step 5 :

                    In order to solve this issue you have to download the MSVCR71.dll file. I have searched a lot for the right version and finally found it. You can download it from here. Once downloaded the dll file and paste it inside system32 folder (c:\Windows\system32).  Now go to the command prompt where installation is in progress and hit enter. If you are not getting any error meaning that memcached has been installed successfully.

Step 6 :

            Once you have installed memcached in your system, go to control panel. Find out the memcached service and start the service. Otherwise you can open command prompt and type start memcached server. You will get a success message.

Step 7 :

         At long last you need to change setup in php.ini file to make memcached to work with PHP. Then only php will able to recognise memcached server. To do this you need php_memcached.dll. You can download it from here.

           

              That’s all! We are done. Now restart your WAMP server. Your memcached is ready to use and it will boost up the application performance. 

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I have also drafted "How to use memcached with PHP?" for my next article.