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Installing IonCube Loader with cPanel on CentOS

Posted on October 9, 2007 by admin

There seems to be limited details of how this is done. It’s fairly simple to be honest, but I felt it could save somebody some time if it was documented.

In case you were wondering IonCube is a PHP encoder, usually used to stop people stealing your PHP code when you distribute it. Consequently to run the encoded PHP you require a “loader”, which will run it correctly.

If your server does not have IonCube loader installed these are the steps you need to take.

1. Visit the IonCube loader page and choose a download for your operating system.
   • In this case we will be selecting the Linux (x86) “.tar.gz” download for CentOS 4.
2. Use “cd” to go to your home directory (usually /root).
3. You need to download the file, issue: wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
4. Next, extract the files from the tarball, issue: tar zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
5. We now need to move the directory to the correct path, issue: mv ioncube /usr/local
6. Next we need to change our active directory, issue: cd /usr/local/ioncube
7. We now need to find out where the “php.ini” is stored, issue: php ioncube-loader-helper.php page=install-assistant
   • You should see something similar to “<code>/usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini</code>”.
   • Also take note of the part that says “ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so” we will use this file later.
8. Next we need to edit the file, issue: nano /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
   • You can use any editor you like such as nano/pico or vi if you know what you’re doing.
9. Find (ctrl+w) the “[Zend]” section of the “php.ini”, above the “zend_extension” line, place: zend_extension = /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so (followed by ctrl+x, Y then enter if using pico or nano).
10. Finally issue: service httpd restart

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11 Responses to Installing IonCube Loader with cPanel on CentOS

1. rob says:

   October 24, 2007 at 5:46 am

   Thanks
2. ozgur says:

   February 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

   Thanks a lot..
3. Ronnie Gilkey says:

   February 27, 2008 at 8:13 pm

   Thanks! You saved me a bunch of time.
4. Nick says:

   August 21, 2008 at 9:01 am

   Thanks for the clear instructions! I needed to delete my current directory first (rm -r /usr/local/ioncube) to install the new version, then everything was fine!
5. kyio says:

   August 25, 2008 at 10:34 am

   got Ioncube running on my machine. thanks
6. Claude says:

   March 12, 2009 at 11:30 am

   Champion!!! They need this on the Ioncube Website
   Very noob friendly
7. MP says:

   April 13, 2009 at 8:28 pm

   Thanks!!!!!!!!
8. Luke Carrier says:

   May 9, 2009 at 8:03 pm

   EasyApache (under Software, Apache Update in WHM) can install this for you – just customise the profile BEFORE you continue with the build process. It doesn’t install the latest version, though :/

   Luke.
9. Oleg says:

   August 16, 2010 at 3:40 pm

   What the f*cking way, in future newbies will be have problems, because it will be conflicting with cpanel ioncube

   use /scripts/easyapache
10. hm2k says:

    October 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    @Oleg You donkey. This is when cPanel didn’t support IonCube.
11. Lohit says:

    May 28, 2011 at 11:18 am

    We now need to move the directory to the correct path, issue: mv ioncube /usr/local

    This step is not working . Please can u help me. Thanks