Patricia Barden wrote:
Also, in order for APC to work correctly, does
$wgMainCacheType need
to be set to "CACHE_ACCEL"?
APC should make your php scripts faster by itself. Setting
$wgMainCacheType to CACHE_ACCEL instructs mediawiki to use APC storage
also for caching the rendered pages.
I recall APC support for storage is disabled by default to prevent
malicious scripts to fill it, though.