After recent cpanel update yesterday. Many of our clients started getting ioncube error in softaculous and other cpanel plugins using ioncube. I investigated and found that they upgraded the cpanel internal php to version 8.3. But the the ioncube loader for it was not installed.
Run the command /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -v and you will get ioncube error.
# /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -v
Failed loading /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/php/unversioned/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.3.so: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/php/unversioned/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solution
So to fix it I manually installed the ioncube loader.
wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
tar zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
chown -R root: ioncube/
mv ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.3.so /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/php/unversioned/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.3.soNow if you check the ioncube error is gone now. And it will show that “ionCube PHP Loader” is installed successfully.
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -v
PHP 8.3.8 (cli) (built: Jun 11 2024 12:00:31) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.8, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v13.3.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2024, by ionCube Ltd.
