Some peoples wants some obfuscated php script running on their dedicated servers with ioncube. Bad taste, but you have to screw this “thing”.
wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
tar xvfz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
cd ioncube/
mkdir /usr/local/ioncube/
sudo mkdir /usr/local/ioncube/
sudo mv ioncube_loader_lin_*.so /usr/local/ioncube/
sudo vim /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ioncube.ini
For php 5.2 paste :
;ioncube
zend_extension_ts = /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2_ts.so
And finally restart apache et voilà !
Hope this helps.