I am in middle of ionCube installation but php configuration is missing zend_extension for ionCube but not specify what is exactly
I am working on CentOs
All well Thanks:)
There were few things I have missed
Select the correct bit release
Match the Loader with your PHP version, e.g. for PHP 5.3, ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so (extensions are inside the folder)
Add 'zend_extension = /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so' to php.ini
Restart the server
Actually ioncube needs its own ini files in php.d directory. Ioncube read its own file with the name of 20-ioncube.ini file.
So to do this we need to create vi /etc/php.d/20-ioncube.ini and add text: "zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so" in it. Now reload php-fpm and browser. Ioncube will find zend framework now.
I had the exact same problem with installing on Ubuntu. Ubuntu wants a soft link from /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-ioncube.ini to /etc/php5/mods-available/20-ioncube.ini. I tried THAT after following the directions given and apache restart failed with 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" in the error log /var/log/apache2/error.log
The solution that worked for me was to delete the soft link and to add the line from /etc/php5/mods-available/20-ioncube.ini ("zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20121212/ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so") to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Possibly of note, I removed spaces on either side of the equals sign.
Apache restarted successfully and clicking the test link in the loader script page resulted in a success message as did subsequent script execution in my development environment dependent upon ioncube.
There are 2 parts to the solution that worked for me:
conf.d directory from the mods-available directory. Do not simply copy the file into the conf.d as the loader-wizard suggests.See my blog post for more details.