Install APC On Elastic Beanstalk

Install

APC can be installed as a package on Amazon Linux AMIs. It is enough to just add it to the package to be installed in one of your .config file in .ebextensions

# .ebextensions/myapp.config
packages:
  yum:
    php55-pecl-apc: []

See Amazon’s documentation for more info.

Troubleshooting

Logs

Logs of the execution of .ebextension/*.config files are found in /var/log/cfn-init.log. You should see something like:

[DEBUG] Installing/updating [u'php55-pecl-apc'] via yum
[INFO] Yum installed [u'php55-pecl-apc']

Wrong package

To search for APC packages:

yum search node