Install New Relic for PHP

New Relic is a real-time Web application that runs in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. Follow these steps to configure New Relic for PHP with Bitnami.

• Download the tarball from https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/2.

• Uncompress it in your machine:

  $ tar -xzf newrelic-php5*.tar.gz
  

  • Apply the following patch before running the installer:

    $ cd newrelic* $ sed -i ’s/${pi_bin} -n/${pi_bin}/’ newrelic-install

• Run the New Relic install script:

  $ sudo ./newrelic-install
  

• Check that the module was correctly installed at installdir/php/lib/php/extensions/newrelic.so.

• Add the newrelic.so module in the PHP configuration file at installdir/php/etc/php.ini, at the end:

  extension=newrelic.so
  

• Check that it was properly added by running php -m and verifying that the New Relic extension is enabled.

• Restart Apache.

  $ sudo installdir/ctlscript.sh restart apache
  

  • Check that the New Eelic service is running:

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/newrelic-daemon status New Relic Daemon: newrelic-daemon is running