Editing Install on a blank Debian VPS (section)

=Install Iocube=

 cd /tmp

 wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

 tar zxf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

 cd ioncube

Find the extension dir:

 php -i | grep extension_dir

 cp ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so EXTENSION_DIR_HERE

Edit the config file:

 sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.ini

Add this line:

 zend_extension=/usr/lib/php/20190902/ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so

Restart apache2:

 sudo systemctl restart apache2