HOW TO INSTALL AND USE MEMCACHED WITH NGINX, PHP 7 ON UBUNTU 16.04

[HOW TO INSTALL AND USE MEMCACHED WITH NGINX, PHP 7 ON UBUNTU 16.04]

Add a dynamic extension to: (get the path from phpinfo)

/etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini

extension=memcached.so

Restart the service:

sudo service memcached restart
sudo service php7.1-fpm restart