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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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