Add memcached Support to Magento

After you successfully install memcached and pecl/memcached (memcached PHP support), you will next want take full advantage of it by enabling native support for memcached in magento.

NOTE: you must have memcached and pecl/memcached already installed. Otherwise your Magento installation will break if you try following this guide.

Ok... now that the warning is out the way. Here's how we do it...

Edit your local.xml


vi ./app/etc/local.xml


Add the following between

        
        
        
          memcached
          
            
                
                    
                    
                    
                
            
            
            
            
            
            
          
        

Example: so your file looks something like this:

    
        
            
        
        
            
        
        false
        
            
                
            
            
                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    1
                
            
        



        
        

        
          memcached
          
            
                
                    
                    
                    
                
            
            
            
            
            
            
          
        
    
    
        
            
                
                    
                
            
        
    

Alright... that should do it... You don't need to restart, just visit your site, and if it's still up, that means it's working! KAPOW!