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Installing ionCube on GoDaddy server using PHP

Asked by: stpatrickjr

I am trying to use Easy PHP Calendar and it is requiring ionCube loader on the server.  The problem is that I just can/t get it running.  I am using the GoDaddy servers and, because they don't supply this product themselves, they will not help with this.

I am starting with just getting the basic ioncube-loader-helper.php to be happy.  When it runs it just tells me:

    An ionCube Loader file is required by PHP to
    read files encoded with the ionCube Encoder.
    This page will determine how you can install
    Loaders on this particular server.

    The loading of ionCube encoded files is not
    currently working correctly on this server.

I figure that once this shows no problems then I can tackle getting the calendar application to run.


Here is what I have done so far:

* Since GoDaddy tells me that either 32 or 64 bit applications will run, I have selected the 32-64 bit version of the files.

* The version of PHP running is 5.2, so I selected the 5.2 versions of the files.

* I uploaded both the non-threadsafe file ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so and the threadsafe file ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so to an "ioncube" folder off of the root folder on the site.

* I then first tried the suggested instructions by putting in this change to the php.ini file in the root of the site (I have obscured the path, but I confirmed that it was correct by looking at $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].)

[Zend]
zend_extension=/home/content/a/b/c/my.www.serverdir/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so

Both with and without the 'Zend' section.

* I then tried it using both the non-thread and threadsafe entries (both with and without the 'Zend' section):

zend_extension=/home/content/a/b/c/my.www.serverdir/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension_ts=/home/content/a/b/c/my.www.serverdir/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so

* I then found an interesting page in the GoDaddy help and I tried this in the php.ini file (both with and without the 'Zend' section):

[Zend]
zend_extension=/home/content/a/b/c/my.www.serverdir/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension_ts=/home/content/a/b/c/my.www.serverdir/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.7
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.7
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so


I was told that changes to the php.ini files take affect when they are uploaded.  Maybe this is incorrect.  How can I send a command, in PHP, to re-read the php.ini file.  

I would need to use PHP script, because I can't restart PHP on the GoDaddy server.

What step am I missing?  What configuration am I missing?  

Is there no hope in it working on this server?

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2008-10-01 at 17:27:07ID23780173
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PHP2 Linux server with Zend

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Answers

 

by: dereshPosted on 2008-10-06 at 12:11:43ID: 22653321

the only way is to restart apache if php is loaded as module. if it runs as CGI it should pick-up changes when it's started next time ( first next access to server). i don't know for fastcgi

 

by: stpatrickjrPosted on 2008-10-06 at 17:36:26ID: 22655686

OK, for everyone out there, here is how to get it to work:

Information for this Configuration
-----------------------------------
Server - GoDaddy
PHP Version - 5.2

How to Set Up
----------------
Use the ionCube files from the 32-bit set, not the 32-64 bit, as implied by GoDaddy stating that it supports 32-64 bits:
ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so

Copy them into an "ioncube" folder in your website root.

Get the physical path to the "ioncube" folder. This is the /home/content/..../html/ioncube/ location to your website. You can find this by looking at the $_SERVER['PHPRC'] variable with a server script.

Edit the php.ini in your root folder. You may already have some settings in a Zend section, but they are wrong. Add this section, being sure that the ioncube entries are FIRST.

(Note: Replace the path to the site's folder with your path, as determined above.)

[Zend]
zend_extension=/home/content/a/b/c/mysite/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension_ts=/home/content/a/b/c/mysite/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.7
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.7
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

Copy the ioncube-loader-helper.php file to the root of your website (I am not sure if it is needed, but it worked for me.)

Run the ioncube-loader-helper.php file.

This, finally, performs its magic and starts it working.

 

by: stpatrickjrPosted on 2008-10-06 at 17:38:58ID: 22655699

You may want to keep this for any other poor soul who tries to get this to work.

 

by: alanhelmickPosted on 2009-05-16 at 07:47:19ID: 24402837

Solution Works for Godaddy Linux Ion Cube Error

You do not need to to copy the php file anywhere...the php.ini file settings changes are the trick.

1.  Make them first in the file.
2.  I was extra sure and made a php5.ini, exactly the same and uploaded it... although I think this was unnecessary.

An actual solution that works.

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