How to Install IonCube Loaders in cPanel Server

IonCube are used as encryption/decryption utility for PHP applications by which we can keep safe our data. It also can restrict PHP application to execute unauthorized. It also assists in speeding up the pages that are served. IonCube loaders are used for decoding encoded files while running on web server. read more details on official site.

This tutorial will help you to install IonCube Loaders in cPanel server without recompiling Apache/PHP on cPanel server. If you are not running cPanel server, read article Install IonCube Loader in CentOS/RHEL (non cPanel Server).

Install IonCube Loaders in cPanel

To install ioncube first connect to your server using root access using ssh client (e.g. Putty ) and execute following command.

# /scripts/phpextensionmgr install IonCubeLoader

This script will install ioncube and do all required settings. below is the sample output of above command

Updating md5sum list
Fetching http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanelsync/easy/targz.yaml (connected:0).......(request attempt 1/12)...Using dns cache file /root/.HttpRequest/httpupdate.cpanel.net......searching for mirrors (mirror search attempt 1/3)......loaded mirror speeds from cache......mirror search success......connecting to 91.121.124.18...@91.121.124.18......connected......receiving...100%......request success......Done
Installing IonCubeLoader
Determining PHP version
Installing IonCube Loader binaries
Activating IonCube Loader extension in /usr/local/lib/php.ini
IonCube Loader extension activated

Verify IonCube Loader

After installing ioncube, You can verify it by linux command line using below command

# php -v

[Sample Output ------------------------------]
PHP 5.4.24 (cli) (built: Jan 26 2014 21:51:18)
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.4.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2013, by ionCube Ltd.

Or we can also create a small php script (info.php) in your web server document root using following content and access on webpage.

<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

Now access created php script in web browser and you will find that ioncube loaders are enabled in your php install.