Installing Memcached on Windows

The official website does not provide a Windows platform installation package for Memcached. You can use the following links to download it. You need to click the corresponding link based on your system platform and the required version number:

• 32-bit system 1.2.5 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-1.2.5-win32-bin.zip

• 32-bit system 1.2.6 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-1.2.6-win32-bin.zip

• 32-bit system 1.4.4 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-win32-1.4.4-14.zip

• 64-bit system 1.4.4 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-win64-1.4.4-14.zip

• 32-bit system 1.4.5 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-1.4.5-x86.zip

• 64-bit system 1.4.5 version: http://static.tutorialpro.org/download/memcached-1.4.5-amd64.zip

Before version 1.4.5, Memcached could be installed as a service, but this feature was removed in version 1.4.5 and later. Therefore, we will introduce the different installation methods for versions 1.4.4 and 1.4.5:

Installing Memcached <1.4.5 Versions

1. Extract the downloaded installation package to a specified directory.

2. Before version 1.4.5, Memcached could be installed as a service. Run the following command with administrator privileges:

   c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d install
   

Note: You need to replace c:\memcached\memcached.exe with the actual path.

3. Then you can use the following commands to start and stop the Memcached service:

   c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d start
   c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d stop
   

4. To modify the Memcached configuration, you can execute the regedit.exe command in the command line to open the registry and locate "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\memcached" to make changes.

To provide caching configuration for Memcached, modify ImagePath to:

"c:\memcached\memcached.exe" -d runservice -m 512

-m 512 means setting the maximum cache configuration for Memcached to 512M.

Additionally, you can view more parameter configurations using the command "c:\memcached\memcached.exe -h".

5. If you need to uninstall Memcached, use the following command:

   c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d uninstall
   

Installing Memcached >= 1.4.5 Versions

1. Extract the downloaded installation package to a specified directory.

2. After version 1.4.5, Memcached cannot run as a service and needs to be started as a regular process using the Task Scheduler, setting Memcached to run automatically at Windows startup.

Run the following command with administrator privileges to add Memcached to the Task Scheduler:

schtasks /create /sc onstart /tn memcached /tr "'c:\memcached\memcached.exe' -m 512"

Note: You need to replace c:\memcached\memcached.exe with the actual path.

Note: -m 512 means setting the maximum cache configuration for Memcached to 512M.

Note: You can view more parameter configurations using the command "c:\memcached\memcached.exe -h".

3. To delete the Memcached task schedule, execute the following command:

   schtasks /delete /tn memcached