Thank you for writing in to DreamHost support.
Unfortunately it is outside the scope of our support team to do custom installations for customers, such as installing third-party functions through PHP. You will need to enable SSH for your username hosting the domain and configure APC manually:
wiki.dreamhost.com/Enabling_Shell_Access
wiki.dreamhost.com/APC
I apologize for any inconvenience that this causes. I recommend notifying the free DreamHost discussion boards with any further questions regarding APC configurations:
discussion.dreamhost.com
When I checked the Dreamhost Wiki I got this before the instructions on APCThe instructions provided in this article or section are considered advanced.
You are expected to be knowledgeable in the UNIX shell.
Support for these instructions is not available from DreamHost tech support.
Server changes may cause this to break. Be prepared to troubleshoot this yourself if this happens.
We seriously aren't kidding about this.
Now I know why I have been paying through the nose for "Fanatical Support" at Rackspace for years. They do anything I ask for within a few minutes. I'm