How to Install ionCube Loader to RunCloud Server

What is ionCube Loader

ionCube Loader is a php modules to load php files that have been encoded with ionCube Encoder. Without this loader, the PHP files can’t be serve by php.

Installing ionCube Loader

Since RunCloud comes with multiple PHP version, you need to install ionCube in your choosen PHP. If your website only use php7.0, you can install ionCube Loader only inside php7.0 or every php version that you want.

Login to your server as root and run the command below

Download & Extract

cd
wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

PHP5.5

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so /RunCloud/Packages/php55rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so" > /etc/php55rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php55rc-fpm

PHP5.6

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so /RunCloud/Packages/php56rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so" > /etc/php56rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php56rc-fpm

PHP7.0

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so /RunCloud/Packages/php70rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so" > /etc/php70rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php70rc-fpm

PHP7.1

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.1.so /RunCloud/Packages/php71rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_7.1.so" > /etc/php71rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php71rc-fpm

PHP7.2

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so /RunCloud/Packages/php72rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so" > /etc/php72rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php72rc-fpm

PHP7.3

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.3.so /RunCloud/Packages/php73rc/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/
echo "zend_extension=ioncube_loader_lin_7.3.so" > /etc/php73rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php73rc-fpm

Checking ionCube Installation

PHP5.5

/RunCloud/Packages/php55rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

PHP5.6

/RunCloud/Packages/php56rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

PHP7.0

/RunCloud/Packages/php70rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

PHP7.1

/RunCloud/Packages/php71rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

PHP7.2

/RunCloud/Packages/php72rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

PHP7.3

/RunCloud/Packages/php73rc/bin/php -m | grep -i ioncube

If your installation is success, you will see the output as follows

ionCube Loader
the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured)

Removing ionCube Loader

PHP5.5

rm /etc/php55rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php55rc-fpm

PHP5.6

rm /etc/php56rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php56rc-fpm

PHP7.0

rm /etc/php70rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php70rc-fpm

PHP7.1

rm /etc/php71rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php71rc-fpm

PHP7.2

rm /etc/php72rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php72rc-fpm

PHP7.3

rm /etc/php73rc/conf.d/ioncube.ini
systemctl restart php73rc-fpm