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Home > How-Tos > How to install ionCube Loader in AlmaLinux

How to install ionCube Loader in AlmaLinux

After you encrypt your PHP files, you can interpret them on your server with the world-popular ionCube encryption tool.


Rusen Gobel Rusen Gobel
June 25, 2022
4 min read
How to install ionCube Loader in AlmaLinux

You may want to encrypt the source code of your PHP application that you have developed if it contains a special code, license system, or a special algorithm and you do not want it to be stolen. Encrypt your PHP source codes easily with the world-famous ionCube encoder tool.

Table of Contents

  • You’ll need a license
  • ionCube Loader installation
    • Check the PHP version
    • Check if it supports 64-bit using hostnamectl
    • Jump to /tmp folder
    • Download ionCube Loader via wget
    • Unzip the tar file
    • Check the ionCube files
    • Find the file compatible with your PHP version
    • Find the PHP module directory
    • Move the plugin to the PHP module directory
    • Open php.ini file via nano
    • Type the extension path in php.ini
    • Restart Apache and PHP
    • It’s done!

You’ll need a license

You need to purchase a license to encrypt PHP codes with ionCube. But after making the purchase, PHP does not decode and interpret the encrypted file by default. You will need a suitable version of ionCube Loader for Linux, Windows, macOS, and 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for your system.

You need to install the ionCube Loader tool, which is the subject of this article, on your server. You can find your ionCube Loader file suitable for your operating system in the link below:

Click here to download ionCube Loader

ionCube Loader installation

Check the PHP version

Before starting the installation, let’s check our current PHP version. To do this, type php -v on the terminal screen.

check php version

On the screenshot above, we see that PHP 7.4.3 is installed on our system. We will also install the ionCube Loader accordingly to this version.


Check if it supports 64-bit using hostnamectl

To view the operating system information described in the installation, we type the hostnamectl command and display that it supports 64-bit. Make sure you download your plug-in file from the ionCube link address according to the architecture of the operating system.

hostnamectl

 


Jump to /tmp folder

We are going to download the installation files to the tmp folder where the temp files are located. So use the cd /tmp command.

cd /tmp


Download ionCube Loader via wget

Then download the ionCube Loader file to your server with wget command.

download ioncube loader via wget


Unzip the tar file

After the ionCube Loader file is successfully downloaded, unzip the compressed file with the tar -zxvf command.

unzip ioncube loader via tar


Check the ionCube files

You can use the cd ioncube; ls -l command to enter the folder and view the contents of the folder.

cd ioncube ls -l


Find the file compatible with your PHP version

We see that there is a file ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so compatible with the PHP version on the server. We will move this file to the folder where PHP modules are located.


Find the PHP module directory

You can use “php -i | grep extension_dir” command to show the PHP module directory.

php -i | grep extension_dir

Congratulations! We saw that our directory path is /usr/lib64/php/modules. This may be different for you, make a note of the directory path; we will need it later.

/usr/lib64/php/modules


Move the plugin to the PHP module directory

The next step will be to move the ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so plugin to the modules folder. Edit the directory paths in the command below and continue.

cp ioncube loader to php modules


Open php.ini file via nano

If the plugin has been successfully copied, we need to define it in the PHP configuration file. Open your php.ini file for it.

open php.ini via nano

The PHP.ini file may be in different directories in PHP-CLI and PHP-FPM installations. Find the php.ini file with the commands below.

sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini #for PHP CLI
sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini #for PHP-FPM & Nginx
$udo nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini #for Apache2

Type the extension path in php.ini

Type zend_extension = “extension path” in the appropriate section of your php.ini file and save and exit.

edit php.ini via nano


Restart Apache and PHP

Then restart Apache and PHP services.

restart httpd and php-fpm


It’s done!

We can view the ionCube Loader information by using the php -v command to view the successful completion of the installation. The image below shows it was successfully installed.

check ioncube loader via php -v

Tags: AlmaLinux OS
Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel is the managing editor of Cloud7. With more than 10 years of experience, Rusen worked as a hardware and software news editor for technology sites such as ShiftDelete, Teknokulis, Hardware Plus, BT Haber. In addition, Rusen publishes consumer product reviews on his YouTube channel. While consumer electronics has been his main focus for years, now Rusen is more interested in WordPress and software development. He had contributed different web application projects in his professional career. Rusen had graduated from Istanbul University, department of Computer Engineering. Rusen has a very high passion for learning and writing for every kind of technology. That's why he has been working as a tech editor for more than ten years on several different technology magazines and online news portals.

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