如何在Amazon Linux x64实例上安装IonCube Loader

Question

I'm having trouble installing IonCube Loader on my Amazon Linux x64 instance.

I'm following these instructions below but the paths are way off and I can't seem to locate the right ones on my install.

For x64:

wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz 
tar xfvz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

Proceed as follows:

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so /usr/lib/php5/20090626/ioncube.so

Now edit to match:

zend_extension = /usr/lib/php5/20090626/ioncube.so

nano /etc/php5/conf.d/ioncube.ini

First, there is no /usr/lib/php5/20090626/ folder. I changed these paths to /usr/lib64/php/modules and included the .so file in there.

However, I cannot seem to locate any ioncube.ini file to edit. Any help is appreciated...

Thank you!

Answer 1

For future readers sake, there is a difference between Amazon's Linux and other versions that most articles online refer to.

You can follow the first two steps above to get the installer, I like to use a temporary folder. Do this as root:

sudo -i
cd /tmp
wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz 
tar xfvz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

Copy the required extension to a slightly different folder under EC2 linux instances, and the loader wizard to your webroot:

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.4.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube.so

Create your ini file:

echo "zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube.so" > /etc/php.d/ioncube.ini

Reload Apache (if you're using it):

service httpd restart

I'm using NGINX and PHP-FPM, in this case you'd probably want to restart PHP-FPM as well as NGINX.

Lastly, use the loader wizard to test it by navigating to http://example.com/loader-wizard.php , and delete the temp files and loader wizard when finished:

rm -rf /tmp/ioncube*
rm /var/www/html/loader-wizard.php

Answer 2

I followed the instructions provided here in the first answer, making allowance for the fact that I'm runnning PHP 5.6:

sudo cp ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so /usr/lib64/php/5.6/modules/ioncube.so
echo "zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/5.6/modules/ioncube.so" > /etc/php.d/ioncube.ini

However, when restarting Apache, I found that it started then failed immediately. The Apache log gave me this error:

PHP Fatal error:  [ionCube Loader] The Loader must appear as the first entry in the php.ini file in Unknown on line 0

I changed the name of the file from ioncube.so to 00-ioncube.so and restarted Apache. This solved the problem by making this file load before the other modules.