Can't connect to memcache

Question

I am trying to connect to memcache as they suggest:

$memcache = new Memcache();
$memcache->pconnect('localhost',11211);

But i get:

Notice: Memcache::pconnect() [memcache.pconnect]: Server localhost (tcp 11211) failed with: Connection refused (111) in /home/user/public_html/website.com/includes/basedatos.php on line 26

Any idea why?

Answer 1

You need to actually install the memcached server so that it can be connected to. On CentOS, this can be done with...

sudo yum install memcached

(on debian flavors of linux, use apt-get instead of yum)

Answer 2

This may be obvious, but make sure that memcached is actually running:

service memcached start