I will give you simple instruction to install ‘Ioncube‘ on Direct Admin Server. ‘Ioncube‘ is a php library which can help you enrypt php file and read encrypted php file. It’s very popular in any system that use PHP to run website. Direct Admin has an option to support us in building this library for PHP.

1. Installing ‘Ioncube’ on Direct Admin backend.

# cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
# ./build set ioncube yes
# ./build ioncube

 – Restart Apache service to affect new setting.

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart

2. Checking php

# php -v
PHP 5.6.26 (cli) (built: Sep 22 2016 04:28:39)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v6.0.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by ionCube Ltd.