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How to Install and Check IonCube Installation on your localhost

Now a days, most of the commercial products and extensions are encoded using Ioncube in order to prevent itself for cracking, nulling or license stealing. But its an headache to install IONCUBE in your server,whether its your web hosting server or your own PC acting as server ( WAMP or XAMPP). Here Im just explaining, how to install IONCUBE in your WAMP localhost , so that you can install those encoded extensions in your Joomla website and do your testing.

Download the Free IonCube Loaders for your PC (machine), by choosing your OS platform. You can download them from HERE
Afetr you have downloaded it, extract that zip pack to your wamp folder directly. So, that it becomes like this, C:\wamp\ioncube
Edit php.ini file: C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\bin\php.ini and add this line at the bottom of the last line: zend_extension_ts = "C:\wamp\ioncube\ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll"
Restart WAMP and you are done.

Now, if you want to test,if you IonCube has successfully got installed and set on your server environment, then here is a way to test. Just goto your Joomla Site Admin backend. Goto HELP > SYSTEM INFO > PHP INFORMATION. Scroll down there and you should see something like this,

This confirms that IONCUBE has successfully been set on your server environment.

Thats all!!

If you want to know, how to install IONCUBE in XAMPP or your web hosting server, then feel free to post in our forums and we would love to help you personally.

Comments

colin anderson

hi there,
I having some problems installing ioncube on xampp for joomla.
I have downloaded the older version of xampp (1.7.1) so that it would be compatible for ioncube but, I have tried everything to get the loaders working, including editing the php.ini file and yet when I check php in joomla, nothing!
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Col

Thursday 07 January 2010, 10:47

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admin

Why are you using XAMPP ?
Why not WAMP ?
Its way better to use WAMP dude.

Thursday 07 January 2010, 12:32

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Zarko

I doesn't work for me as well (Windows XP, SP3; WAMP server 2.0; PHP 5.3, Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.1; IonCube loader 3.3). Did everything as you said...

Saturday 27 March 2010, 16:09

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Allen

Worked first time for me. Followed your steps exactly and it ran with no problems, thanks.

FYI: Running Wampserver on Windows Vista. I selected the zip archive format for Windows VC6 (x86)

Friday 28 May 2010, 11:28

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