PHP Caching and Acceleration with XCache

Up until today, I was still using eAccelerator on all of my servers. However, a post on the vBulletin.com forums prompted me to give XCache, the new PHP accelerator from the maker of lighttpd, a try. I’ve got to say, while I’ve only been using it for about 6 hours at this point, it blows eAccelerator out of the water, especially once you enable multiple caches (which benefits SMP systems).

How to change configuration settings in php from .htaccess

To change the configuration for php running as cgi those handy module commands won’t work.. The work-around is being able to tell php to start with a custom php.ini file.. configured the way you want.