How to Configure Magento Memcached and Use It?

Learn how to configure and use Magento Memcached for both version 2.0 and older versions.

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Configure the Magento Memcached 

To enable configure Memcached for Magento 2, you must change some settings in the env.php file. To do this, follow these steps:

Step 1: Using your preferred text editor, navigate to the directory where you installed Magento, and then open the app/etc/env.php

Step 2: Locate the following section in the PHP file:

'session' => [

'save' => 'files'

],

Step 3: Modify this section as follows:

'session' => [   

        'save' => 'memcached',   

        'save_path' => '127.0.0.1:11211'

  ],

Step 4: Save your changes to the env.php file. Memcached is now enabled.

Enabling Memcached with a preferred text editor

To enable Memcached for Magento 1.9 and older versions, you need to add some settings to the local.xml file. To do this, follow these steps:

Step 1: Using your preferred text editor, navigate to the directory where you installed Magento, and then open the app/etc/local.xml

Step 2: Add the following lines just before the closing </global> tag:

<cache>

<backend>memcached</backend>

            <memcached>

                  <servers>

                      <server>

                           <host><![CDATA[127.0.0.1]]></host>

                               <port><![CDATA[11211]]></port>

          <persistent><![CDATA[1]]></persistent>

                     </server>

                              </servers>

                      <compression><![CDATA[0]]></compression>

                      <cache_dir><![CDATA[]]></cache_dir>

      <hashed_directory_level><![CDATA[]]></hashed_directory_level>

      <hashed_directory_umask><![CDATA[]]></hashed_directory_umask>

                      <file_name_prefix><![CDATA[]]></file_name_prefix>

                        </memcached>17. </cache>

Step 3: Save your changes to the local.xml file. Memcached is now enabled.

By following these steps, Magento 2 Memcached can be configured.

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