How To Install ionCube on Ubuntu 20.04
ionCube is PHP extension that is used to load ionCube encoded PHP files. ionCube is used to protect commercial PHP scripts by encoding it, so no one can read the actual PHP code.
First, download ioncube loader from
https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php
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cd /usr/local/src wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz tar xvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz cd ioncube/ |
Find extension directory and copy .so file to PHP extension directory. To find PHP extension directory run
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php -i | grep extension_dir |
On my installation, i have PHP extension_dir set to /usr/lib/php/20190902. If it’s different for you, change the path in the following command.
For PHP 7.4, run
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cp /usr/local/src/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so /usr/lib/php/20190902 |
Enable ioncube
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echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so" > /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/ioncube.ini ln -s /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/ioncube.ini /etc/php/7.4/cli/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini |
for Apache, run
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ln -s /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/ioncube.ini /etc/php/7.4/apache2/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini systemctl restart apache2 |
for php-fpm, run
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ln -s /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/ioncube.ini /etc/php/7.4/fpm/conf.d/01-ioncube.ini systemctl restart php7.4-fpm |