Installing IonCube Loader with cPanel on CentOS

October 9, 2007 at 1:13 am · Filed under Linux, cPanel

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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8 Comments »

  1. rob said,

    October 24, 2007 @ 5:46 am

    Thanks

  2. ozgur said,

    February 6, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

    Thanks a lot..

  3. Ronnie Gilkey said,

    February 27, 2008 @ 8:13 pm

    Thanks! You saved me a bunch of time.

  4. Nick said,

    August 21, 2008 @ 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 said,

    August 25, 2008 @ 10:34 am

    got Ioncube running on my machine. thanks

  6. Claude said,

    March 12, 2009 @ 11:30 am

    Champion!!! They need this on the Ioncube Website :)
    Very noob friendly

  7. MP said,

    April 13, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

    Thanks!!!!!!!!

  8. Luke Carrier said,

    May 9, 2009 @ 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.

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