Installing APC on ubuntu

Question

So I've got my server running Ubuntu with lampp (xampp for linux) running. I want to implement a file upload progress bar, so I am trying to install APC. (Please do not suggest alternative plugins) I tried multiple tutorials, but the way I ended up using is running apt-get install php-apc this worked fine, no errors during installation, but then I tried running this command in php:

apc_fetch($somevar); 

and it ended up failing with:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function apc_fetch() 

In my php.ini file I put apc.rfc1867 = On;. I also tried extension=apc.so, but that results in an internal server error. Other things I tried are:

• apc.enabled = 1
• apc.shm_size = 32
• apc.rfc1867 = 1

None of them worked, hopefully you can help me :)

Answer 1

You're using lampp and then try to install an ubuntu-provided package on top. This is not going to work. Get rid of the uselessness that is lampp, and stick to using only Ubuntu packages.