How To Install PHP Pecl for 5.3.x with APC Module

If you are looking to improve performance on your apache web server there is a PHP module that is from the PHP extension community library named Alternative PHP Cache. This APC module will cache and optimize your PHP webpages speeding up content delivery. Here are directions how to install this package.

Follow the steps below to install php and the apc module:

yum install php53 php53-devel php-pear pcre pcre-devel gcc cpp make autoconf

Next to install apc use the pecl command line installer

pecl install apc
54 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20090626
Zend Module Api No:      20090626
Zend Extension Api No:   220090626
Enable internal debugging in APC [no] : 
Enable per request file info about files used from the APC cache [no] : 
Enable spin locks (EXPERIMENTAL) [no] : 
Enable memory protection (EXPERIMENTAL) [no] : 
Enable pthread mutexes (default) [yes] : 
Enable pthread read/write locks (EXPERIMENTAL) [no] :

This pecl installer will configure your apache installation automatically if you installed apache. Some problems can arise when installing usually due to missing packages, see an example of a missing package below.

/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:44:
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:37: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:38: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:44: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:393: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pcre'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_compile_array':
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:454: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:454: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:455: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:455: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c: In function 'apc_regex_match_array':
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:487: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:487: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'preg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:488: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
/tmp/tmpia0OKv/APC-3.1.9/apc.c:488: error: 'apc_regex' has no member named 'nreg'
make: *** [apc.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed

If you come across this error then the make sure to install pcre and pcre-devel with yum.