Installing Ioncube loader for a hosting account on dedicated server
IonCube loader is the PHP extension that decodes encrypted PHP files on runtime. All wehosting service provider do it installed on their servers. If you are using Linux Dedicated server and want to install it for a particular hosting account then you just need to follow the steps below :-
Login to your server as a root then go to the users account
#cd /home/username/
Download ioncube from the source.
#wget http://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
Now you will have to extract the source file.
# tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
Now just change the ownership of ioncube to the user for which you are installing it
# chown username.username ioncube
[/home/username/ioncube]# chown username.username *
copy ioncube files under user’s doccument root
[/home/username/ioncube]# cp ioncube-encoded-file.php ../public_html/
[/home/username/ioncube]# cp ioncube-loader-helper.php ../public_html/
[/home/username]# cd public_html/
[/home/username/public_html]# chown username.username ioncube*
Thats all Ioncube is loaded and is installed for required domain and you can access ioncube by http://yourdomain.com/ioncube-loader-helper.php
