As I was trying out Zend Guard, I’ve noticed that Zend Optimizer wasn’t installed on my new webserver. As I’ve got cPanel / WHM installed, I didn’t want to install Zend Optimizer manually.
Zend Optimizer is a PHP addon which offers caching to improve speed when loading sites, it can increase perfomance by up to 40% by caching frequently viewed portions of PHP pages. Zend Guard also is useful for encoding PHP files to protect source code.
Here’s how to install Zend Optimizer:
- Login to your server via SSH
- Run: /scripts/installzendopt
- Follow the instructions on the screen to install Zend Optimizer
You can verify that Zend Optimizer has been installed successfully by creating a PHP file containing this line only:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
You should see the following when accessing this file:
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