Posted in
News
I have tested this on a Debian Etch server where Apache2 and PHP5 are already installed and working.
host-colorpack.net:~/root# apt-get install memcached php5-memcache
server1:~# netstat -tap | grep memcached
tcp 0 0 *:11211 *:* LISTEN 3053/memcached
host-colorpack.net:~/root#
host-colorpack.net:~/root# vi /etc/memcached.conf
[...]
# Specify which IP address to listen on. The default is to listen on all IP addresses
# This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure
# it's listening on a firewalled interface.
# -l 12.34.56.78
-l 127.0.0.1
[...]
host-colorpack.net:~/root# /etc/init.d/memcached restart
... and run
netstat -tap | grep memcached
again. As you see, memcached is now listening on localhost only:
server1:~# netstat -tap | grep memcached
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:11211 *:* LISTEN 3092/memcached
server1:~#
Afterwards, we restart Apache so that our new PHP configuration takes effect:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart