Install & Configure ionCube loaders for Bitnami

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The ionCube loader is a PHP module to load files that were protected with the ionCube Encoder software. ionCube is often used by commercial PHP software vendors to protect their software, so it is likely that you come across an ionCube encoded file sooner or later when you install extensions for CMS or Shop software written in PHP. In this tutorial, I show you how to install ionCube loaders on the Bitnami version of WordPress on Google Cloud. Though this tutorial may be based on google cloud, the same should work for Bitnami stack on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Before we kick off with this tutorial;

Make sure you have already installed the Bitnami stack.
Let’s get on with it…

1. Login to your Google Cloud Platform account and click on the Navigation Menu icon from your Google Cloud Dashboard.

2. From the sidebar menu, click or hover on the Compute Engine link and click on the VM instances link from the popped menu.

3. From your VM instances screen, click on the SSH link next to the instance you just deployed.

4. Copy & Paste the command below into your SSH terminal to check your PHP version. In the case of this tutorial, our PHP version is 7.3.16 so we install ionCube version 7.3

php -v

Download the pre-compiled version and copy the .so file to the PHP extensions directory. It is very important to install the right version of ionCube taking into account the PHP version included in your solution. For example, if you want to install ionCube on WordPress and it uses PHP 7.3.14, you need to install the version 7.3 of ionCube.

5. Copy & Paste the command below into your SSH terminal to download the pre-compiled version of ionCube loaders.

6. Copy & Paste the command line below into your SSH terminal to extract the downloaded pre-compiled ionCube loaders.

7. Copy & Paste the command line below into your SSH terminal to move the extracted ionCube loaders to the extensions directory.

sudo cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_Y.Z.so /opt/bitnami/php/lib/php/extensions/

NOTE: Y and Z in the command line right above are placeholders. Remember to replace them with the ionCube version number that matches your PHP version, e.g Y.Z should be 7.3 for PHP 7.3.14

Save the updated changes using [Ctrl + X], respond with [Y] for yes to confirm and then hit [Enter] to continue.

10. In order for the updated changes to take effect Copy & Paste the command line below into your SSH terminal to restart the Apache server.

11. Congratulations installing and enabling ionCube loaders, copy and paste the command line below into you SSH terminal to confirm the installation and configuration.

php -v

The return result should look just as in the screenshot below, this tells ionCube loaders were successfully installed and configured. Go ahead and install whatever app required it and it should work perfectly.

That’s it.

I hope you found this post useful and that you have been able to install and configure ionCube loaders for your Bitnami stack.

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[praneethprince]

nice buddy it worked perfectly thanks!

[ogunniyiadebambo]

PHP 7.4.11 (cli) (built: Oct 12 2020 14:57:51) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader + ionCube24 v10.4.4, Copyright (c) 2002-2020, by ionCube Ltd.
with Zend OPcache v7.4.11, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
this is the error am getting

AliDropship plugin alert: Error! ionCube Loader Loader not found. Alidropship plugin can't be activated.

[WallStreetinWallStreetLLC]

Problem: cp: cannot stat No such file or

[ogunniyiadebambo]

pls sir i follow you instruction ... my php version is 7.4 .. which have change it and it fine but my main problem is alidropship still cant find the ioncude... pls help me

[WallStreetinWallStreetLLC]

Sorry for this but read this, yesterday I check my php version php - v and show me 7.4.13, today, in phone, it show me 7.2, how possible was that? It's OK?

[sanoojkasun]

i have PHP 7.4.10. how can i install ioncube? what is the loader link?

[bigtrick]

tried it, it doesn't recognize the command tar xvzf i got error message

[WallStreetinWallStreetLLC]

Check this men...my ioncube version for my PHP in was 10.4!!!! but, check what the system writes to me when I ask the this version 10.4----sudo cp
ons/
cp: cannot stat No such file or directory----!!!! crazy???? Yes or no? BUT, when I write again and change in in to my PHP version 7.4 !!!! it sent it to me...!!!! and it downloads this....into my system..How crazy was that..