Configuring Zend Server

This section refers to the actual configuration workflow for using Zend Server. Here, we describe the general workflow. Each component also has a separate section describing how to work with the component in detail (see Related Links).

The Zend Server's Administration Interface is the main control center for configuring your PHP and Zend Server components. After installing Zend Server, use the Administration Interface to configure your PHP by performing the following actions:

1. In Server Setup | Extensions, define the extensions that should be "turned on" or "turned off". If you are planning to use functions related to an extension in your code, verify that the extension is turned on. If your extension has additional directives that are used to configure  the extension's behavior, a configure link is included in the Directives column. Clicking this link leads you to the directives, pre-sorted to display the relevant directives.

2. The Directives page is accessed by clicking Server Setup | Directives. Here, you find all the directives relating to the extensions and components loaded in your PHP. If you cannot find a directive in the directives page, look in Server Setup | Extensions or Server Setup | Components to check that the extension or component is "turned on".
   See Adding Extensions for instructions on how to manually add an extension.

3. In Server Setup | Components, define the Zend Server components that should be "turned on" or "turned off". If you are planning to use functions related to Zend Server components in your code (such as the Optimizer+,  Data Cache, Debugger, Guard Loader or Java Bridge), verify that the extensions are "turned on". If your Zend Server component has additional directives used for configuring the component's behavior, a configure link is included in the Directives column. Clicking this link leads you to the relevant directive in the Directives page .

4. In Server Setup | Debugger, define which hosts are allowed to connect to the server to use the Zend Debugger for debugging and which hosts are not allowed.

5. In Rule Management | Monitoring, define the rules to generate events in Monitor | Events. Additional Monitor settings to define behavior (such as integration with Zend Studio for Eclipse and Mail settings for forwarding event information outside Zend Server) can be found in Server Setup | Monitor.

6. In Rule Management | Caching, define the rules to cache output based on a URL.