{"id":5067,"date":"2015-06-01T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T06:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cs-cart.com\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:56:35","slug":"five-server-tweaks-to-get-maximum-speed-out-of-cs-cart-4-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/five-server-tweaks-to-get-maximum-speed-out-of-cs-cart-4-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Server Tweaks to Get Maximum Speed out of CS-Cart 4.3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CS-Cart 4.3.1 is now available<\/a>. We\u2019ve done a solid piece of work to speed it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CS-Cart 4.3.1 is fast because it\u2019s well-optimized, but the speed also depends on the server configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve prepared five server tweaks<\/strong> that will help you get the maximum speed boost from CS-Cart 4.3.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before tweaking, check if your server has all the required libraries and modules:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create the phpinfo.php<\/em> file in your server\u2019s root directory.<\/li>\n
  2. Open the file via any text editor and type this code:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Save the changes and close the file.<\/li>\n
    2. Visit the URL of the phpinfo.php<\/em> file in your web browser. For example: https:\/\/localhost\/phpinfo.php<\/a><\/em>. You will see the detailed information about your PHP version, installed modules, libraries, and more.<\/li>\n
    3. Press CTRL + F (Command + F for Mac) and type the library or module name.<\/li>\n
    4. If you can’t find a library or a module, your server doesn\u2019t have it. Before tweaking, install missing libraries and modules.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

      <\/span>Use PHP 5.6<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      CS-Cart 4.3.1 works faster with PHP version 5.6<\/strong>. Update PHP<\/a> on your server to 5.6 to accelerate your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      <\/span>Enable OPcache<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      Use the OPcache<\/a> caching engine to speed up PHP scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Every time the PHP interpreter runs a PHP script, it compiles the script into what\u2019s called byte code<\/em>. OPcache allows the PHP interpreter to compile the script only once and save the byte code into the memory. Every time CS-Cart calls the PHP script, the interpreter retrieves the byte code from memory. Retrieving the byte code from memory is faster than compiling the PHP script again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      CS-Cart 4.3.1 uses OPcache by default if you have it installed and enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      <\/span>Install mod_deflate<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      The mod_deflate<\/a> module compresses web pages in CS-Cart. The smaller the page size, the faster a web server transmits page data, and the quicker a customer sees the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Ask you hosting provider if the server has mod_deflate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      <\/span>Use Imagick<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      Imagick<\/a> is an image processing library for PHP similar to GD<\/a>. It supports more file types and image transformations than GD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        1. Install ImageMagick<\/a> software suite and imagick<\/a> library.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Clear your thumbnails cache<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Change the library name in the config.local.php<\/em> file:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          ‘image_resize_lib’ => ‘imagick’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          <\/span>Enable APCu and Redis<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          APCu<\/strong> is a caching technology that stores (i.e., caches) data generated by CS-Cart. Once the data has been cached, CS-Cart retrieves it from the cache when needed. Retrieving data from the cache is faster than generating it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Redis<\/strong> is another data caching technology. It caches data into RAM, so that it’s quickly accessed. We recommend that you use Redis for PHP sessions<\/a>. This combination of APCu and Redis is a cornerstone of effective CS-Cart speed optimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Install APCu<\/a> and Redis<\/a> to speed up CS-Cart 4.3.1. Then modify the lines in the config.local.php<\/em> file as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          $config[‘cache_backend’] = ‘apc’;
          $config[‘session_backend’] = ‘redis’;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Check the CS-Cart Forum for more tips on configuring your server<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          \n\n\n\n

          We hope these tweaks will help you get the maximum speed out of CS-Cart 4.3.1. You are welcome to ask any questions about server configurations here or on the forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Follow CS-Cart on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> to stay in touch with CS-Cart news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          CS-Cart 4.3.1 is now available. We\u2019ve done a solid piece of work to speed it up. CS-Cart 4.3.1 is fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}