Solved - BUG? PHP 5.6 - IONCUBE

[uksitehost]

When you do a fresh install of vestacp it installs PHP 5.6 as part of its LAMP Stack. Ioncube is currently not available for this, which means using WHMCS or Boxbilling locally is not possible. This is a flaw for a hosting panel!

The only solutions I have found involve hosting these somewhere else other than your own server and ensuring that port 8083 can be opened where you host the billing software. This too can mostly not be done.

How do you downgrade PHP versions, and when you have what is the correct method of applying the IONCUBE loaders so that they are usable by all server users. There are lots of answers but many are different.

Surely as part of the auto-installation the appropriate PHP and IONCUBE loaders should be installed, especially as the WHMCS integration is claimed.

[uksitehost]

It actually installs PHP 5.5.9.

Save the ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so and ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.ts.so to a directory /usr/*whatevever*/

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vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

and add

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zend_extension = /usr/*whatevever*/ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so
zend_extension = /usr/*whatevever*/ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.ts.so

to the very top of the .ini file (before the [PHP})