Download ioncube
cd ~/Downloads wget http://downloads3.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz tar zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz cd ioncube
Find extension_dir folder
php -i | grep extension_dir will give location of extension_dir in your installation. You need to copy correct version of ioncube file to this folder.
$ php -i | grep extension_dir extension_dir => /usr/lib/php5/20121212 => /usr/lib/php5/20121212 $
Find PHP Version
Lets find the PHP version, so we know which ioncube file to use.
$ php -v
PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.9 (cli) (built: Apr 17 2015 11:44:57)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.2.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2013, by Derick Rethans
$
Copying ioncube .so file to PHP extension_dir
ioncube provid following .so files, you need to copy the file for your PHP version to extension_dir folder.
$ ls -la total 19404 drwxr-xr-x 2 boby boby 4096 May 22 21:30 . drwxr-xr-x 28 boby boby 12288 Jun 9 14:38 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 464360 May 22 20:06 ioncube_loader_lin_4.1.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 463912 May 22 20:07 ioncube_loader_lin_4.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 464616 May 22 20:07 ioncube_loader_lin_4.3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 482248 May 22 20:07 ioncube_loader_lin_4.3_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 467624 May 22 20:07 ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 483368 May 22 20:07 ioncube_loader_lin_4.4_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 476616 May 22 20:08 ioncube_loader_lin_5.0.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 489736 May 22 20:08 ioncube_loader_lin_5.0_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1097448 May 22 20:08 ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1137128 May 22 20:09 ioncube_loader_lin_5.1_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1138472 May 22 20:09 ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1175592 May 22 20:09 ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1273808 May 22 20:10 ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1330896 May 22 20:10 ioncube_loader_lin_5.3_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1414416 May 22 20:11 ioncube_loader_lin_5.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1492272 May 22 20:12 ioncube_loader_lin_5.4_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1429288 May 22 20:12 ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1502856 May 22 20:13 ioncube_loader_lin_5.5_ts.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1394328 May 22 20:13 ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 boby boby 1447000 May 22 20:14 ioncube_loader_lin_5.6_ts.so -rw-rw-r-- 1 boby boby 10768 Apr 23 21:35 LICENSE.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 boby boby 162987 Apr 23 21:20 loader-wizard.php -rw-rw-r-- 1 boby boby 2191 Apr 23 21:45 README.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 boby boby 5445 Apr 27 23:20 USER-GUIDE.txt $
We have PHP 5.5 installed. Lets use following file ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so
sudo cp ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so /usr/lib/php5/20121212
Load ioncube module
Create file /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini
Add following content to the file you created.
zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so
Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart
ionCube for Commmand Line PHP
cd /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ ln -s /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini
Verify it with
root@manage:~# php -m | grep -i ionc ionCube Loader the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) root@manage:~#
