diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3ef49556a..2bcff386c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 /application/config/database.php
 /application/config/config.php
 /application/config/redis.php
+/application/config/memcached.php
 /application/config/*/config.php
 /application/config/*/database.php
 /application/config/*/redis.php
+/application/config/*/memcached.php
 /application/logs/*
 /application/cache/*
 /backup/*.adi
diff --git a/application/config/memcached.sample.php b/application/config/memcached.sample.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d403e41b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/application/config/memcached.sample.php
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?php
+defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
+
+/*
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Memcached settings
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Copy this sample file to memcached.php and define one or more servers
+|
+|	See: https://codeigniter.com/userguide3/libraries/caching.html#memcached-caching
+|
+*/
+$config = array(
+	'default' => array(
+		'hostname' => '127.0.0.1',
+		'port'     => '11211',
+		'weight'   => '1',
+	),
+);