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Configuring Zend Server Community Edition

This section refers to the actual configuration workflow for using Zend Server Community Edition Here, we describe the general workflow. Each component also has a separate section describing how to work with the component in detail (see Related Links).

The Zend Server Community Edition's Administration Interface is the main control center for configuring your PHP and Zend Server Community Edition components. After installing Zend Server Community Edition, use the Administration Interface to configure your PHP by performing the following actions:

In Server Setup | Extensions, define the extensions that should be "turned on" or "turned off". If you are planning to use functions related to an extension in your code, verify that the extension is turned on. If your extension has additional directives that are used to configure the extension's behavior, a configure link is included in the Directives column. Clicking this link leads you to the directives, pre-sorted to display the relevant directives.
The Directives page is accessed by clicking Server Setup | Directives. Here, you find all the directives relating to the extensions and components loaded in your PHP. If you cannot find a directive in the directives page, look in Server Setup | Extensions or Server Setup | Components to check that the extension or component is "turned on".
See Adding Extensions for instructions on how to manually add an extension.
In Server Setup | Components, define the Zend Server Community Edition components that should be "turned on" or "turned off". If you are planning to use functions related to Zend Server Community Edition components in your code (such as the Optimizer+, Data Cache, Debugger, Guard Loader or Java Bridge), verify that the extensions are "turned on". If your Zend Server Community Edition component has additional directives used for configuring the component's behavior, a configure link is included in the Directives column. Clicking this link leads you to the relevant directive in the Directives page .
In Server Setup | Debugger, define which hosts are allowed to connect to the server to use the Zend Debugger for debugging and which hosts are not allowed.

Restart PHP Message

The Restart PHP message appears whenever a change is made to settings in your php.ini file. in order to apply the settings click the "Restart PHP" button. The changes will be applied to php.ini file on which Zend Server is running.

The Restart PHP message appears whenever a change is made to setting in your clusters php.ini file. In order to apply the settings go to Cluster Setup | Servers, select the nodes to be restarted and click Restart Selected or Restart All to reset the PHP in all nodes. The changes will be applied to the php.ini files on your selected node(s) that are associated with this cluster.