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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_socache_memcache</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Memcache based shared object cache provider.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>socache_memcache_module</td></tr>
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<h3>Summary</h3>

    <p><code>mod_socache_memcache</code> is a shared object cache provider
    which provides for creation and access to a cache backed by the
    <a href="http://memcached.org/">memcached</a>
    high-performance, distributed memory object caching system.
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    <p>This shared object cache provider's "create" method requires a 
       comma separated list of memcached host/port specifications. If using
       this provider via another modules configuration (such as 
       <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslsessioncache">SSLSessionCache</a></code>), provide
       the list of servers as the optional "arg" parameter.</p>

     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">SSLSessionCache memcache:memcache.example.com:12345,memcache2.example.com:12345</pre>

      
    <p>Details of other shared object cache providers can be found
    <a href="../socache.html">here</a>.
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="MemcacheConnTTL" id="MemcacheConnTTL">MemcacheConnTTL</a> <a name="memcacheconnttl" id="memcacheconnttl">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Keepalive time for idle connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MemcacheConnTTL <em>num[units]</em></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MemcacheConnTTL 15s</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_socache_memcache</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache 2.4.17 and later</td></tr>
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    <p>Set the time to keep idle connections with the memcache server(s)
    alive (threaded platforms only).</p>
    
    <p>Valid values for <code class="directive">MemcacheConnTTL</code> are times
    up to one hour. 0 means no timeout.</p>

    <div class="note"><p>This timeout defaults to units of seconds, but accepts
    suffixes for milliseconds (ms), seconds (s), minutes (min), and hours (h).
    </p></div>

    <p>Before Apache 2.4.17, this timeout was hardcoded and its value was 600 usec.
    So, the closest configuration to match the legacy behavior is to set
    <code class="directive">MemcacheConnTTL</code> to 1ms.</p>

    <div class="example"><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># Set a timeout of 10 minutes
MemcacheConnTTL 10min
# Set a timeout of 60 seconds
MemcacheConnTTL 60</pre>
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