Hello,
I plan to use Virtualmin on my futur server. I am quiet a newbie in the server administration. I just would like to know if there’s a way to automatically install ioncube on the server through Virtualmin.
Thanks a lot for your answers.
Best.
Howdy,
That would only be possible if your distribution happens to provide a package for it… and I’m not aware of any that do 
So unfortunately, you’d likely need to manually download and set it up.
You can download the free ionCube loader files from here:
Hi Andreychek,
Thanks for your answer. Well, I asked this question because I installed it 2 times before, and I remember this was quiet hard to install for a newbie. I know the process for installing it, but it seems that a lot of persons have the same problem with it: following the install instructions steps by steps, sometimes it doesn’t work for unkown reasons. So I guess that’s because I’m a quiet newbie, an intensive administraor will probably install it in few minutes…
So that’s why I wondered if Virtualmin - GPL or PRO - could install it by itself, that would be just amazing.
Thanks again.
Best.
These days, it usually suffices to download the tarball for your platform/php version and extract it inside your virtual server’s htdocs/public_html
This is because compiled ionCube code can automatically load DSOs from there.
But you can also just edit $HOME/etc/php.ini and add the zend_extension line there.
Note that you do not need to install anything systemwide, I am using this is several virtualmin-based hosts, and only really 1) downloaded the tarball, 2) extracted it to $HOME and 3) added the zend_extension line to $HOME/etc/php.ini
So it’s actually pretty straightforward - and while it’s true that webmin/virtualmin cannot ship ionCube, the installation could be greatly simplified by providing a dedicated ionCube installer, whose development would be ideally sponsored by the ionCube folks
Honestly, it’s just 5 lines of shell code involving wget/curl, cp and editing php.ini - so in terms of webmin/Perl code, that should be less than 50 lines of code actually.
And the WHCMS module already seems to handle this according to: http://www.virtualmin.com/node/23278
I find it hard to imagine why the ionCube folks don’t make sure that management frontends like virtualmin have an automated way to install and use it …
https://www.virtualmin.com/node/10149