How to install ioncube Loader in OpenShift with WorkFlow Guide

Question

I create an Application with following cartridges - PHP 5.4 - MySQL 5.5 - Phpmyadmin 4.0

What is the full workflow to make the ioncube fully function, and each time I push the repo data won't not deleted / reset?

I do read about https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/how-to-install-ioncube-loader

But not really clear for the step.

Answer 1

Credit to cdaley: https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/how-to-install-ioncube-loader

1. First, you have to have created a gear with the Zend cartridge. (why? because you can go to zend/configuration/etc/php.ini to add the php.ini setting)
2. ssh into your gear and cd app-root/data
3. wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
4. tar -xvzf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
5. You will end up with a folder called 'ioncube'
6. Run echo $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR and make note of the output
7. nano $HOME/zend/configuration/etc/php.ini

8. Add this line to the END of the file you are editing (this one depend your php version, can be 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or even latest version)

   zend_extension=<OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR>ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so

   Where you replace with the path from Step 6.

9. Put the loader-wizard.php into your $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/php directory
10. Exit out of your ssh connection
11. Run rhc app restart $appname where $appname is the name of your application OR you can restart on the web console.
12. View the $appname-$domain.rhcloud.com/loader-wizard.php in your browser and it should say that the extension is installed correctly now.