Install xhprof

• Update toturial on how to install + combined with the xhprof module.

INSTALL DEPENDENCIES

apt-get install php5-dev
sudo pecl config-set preferred_state beta
sudo pecl install xhprof

DOWNLOAD XHPROF SOURCE

cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/facebook/xhprof.git

INSTALL XHPROF EXTENSION

cd xhprof/extension
phpize
./configure
make
make install

EDIT PHP INI FILE Edit the PHP inf file and add the next code in the end:

The likely location (ubuntu 14.04) nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.

[xhprof]
extension=xhprof.so
xhprof.output_dir=/tmp

Restart your apache server

cd into your www folder and run the next command:

mkdir xhprof
cp -a /tmp/xhprof/xhprof_* /var/www/xhprof

Go to devel settings and check on enable profile and set the next variables:

xhprof directory - /var/www/xhprof
XHProf URL - http://localhost/xhprof/xhprof_html

Create a symlink to our xhprof_html folder. So just in case set this:

ln -s /usr/share/php/xhprof_html /var/www/html/xhprof_html

Get graphing functions:

sudo apt-get install graphviz
sudo service apache2 restart

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