Problem with ioncube on new debian wheezy server

[GiorgosP1]

I think I hit a bug.

New debian wheezy server with Plesk 12.0.18 Update #24 and ioncube:

# php -v
PHP 5.4.35-0+deb7u1 (cli) (built: Nov 18 2014 06:49:05)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd.

A developer of our compay tries an ioncube app on this server and fails(exact message in a little while).

The same app worked on a debian squeeze server with 11.5.30 Update #48 with ioncube:

# php -v
PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze22 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 29 2014 22:01:30)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.2.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2012, by ionCube Ltd.
with Suhosin v0.9.32.1, Copyright (c) 2007-2010, by SektionEins GmbH

We search in forums etc and lastly we get a response from ioncube:

Hi

The version of ionCube loaders you have installed (v4.6.0) was a problematic release that should not be used. From phpinfo:

with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd.

You need to update the loader to the latest version.

So, I just downloaded the loader from ioncube's site and replaced the files on my server:
/usr/lib/php5/20100525/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so
/usr/lib/php5/20100525/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so
/usr/lib/php5/20100525/ioncube_loader_lin_5.5.so
/usr/lib/php5/20100525/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
/usr/lib/php5/20100525/ioncube_loader_lin_5.4.so

Now php -v gives:
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.7.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd.

and the app works.

So the default plesk installation for ioncube (which is I guess php5-ioncube-loader package) is broken.

Could this be fixed?

Thanks!
Giorgos

 

[GiorgosP1]

The error message with ioncube 4.6.0 was 500 internal server error.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi GiorgosP1,

Plesk itself isn't shipped with PHP. In fact, it uses the installed PHP - version, which you installed either over your vendor, or how ever you decided to install your server. Please make sure, that you update/upgrade/patch your operating system, as well the included packages on your very own.

 

[GiorgosP1]

OK, I think I got it. So about the ioncube version shipped in the package php5-ioncube-loader I should blame my hosting provider which set up my server with plesk as well other packages. Thanks!