Installing ionCube on GoDaddy Hosting
I got a piece of junk mail from GoDaddy the other day that caught my eye. GoDaddy was announcing that it is now offering WordPress Hosting. Pretty sweet. I thought I’d give it a try with one of my newest clients. Another cool thing was that we got her domain for $1.99 as a result of purchasing this non-domain item. Can’t beat that!
The installation of WordPress went very smoothly and the customer service was wonderful. I had sent out a Tweet about a frustration I was having with my GoDaddy hosting and within a few minutes I had received a tweet reply and gotten a personal phone call from tech support. That is customer service, my friends.
Today while installing all the fun stuff for the new client’s blog I discovered that installing ionCube php loader (a neccesary component for the Traffic Getting SEO Plugin from Jeff Johnson) on GoDaddy was a little confusing (okay, I was stumped for an hour and a half). I could not find any specific information for my GoDaddy errors. I figured I would save you a few steps and a couple handfuls of hair by sharing with you how I was able to accomplish this task with the GoDaddy WordPress Hosting package.
- Install WordPress on your GoDaddy WordPress Hosting
- Make sure your hosting plan is on the Linux hosting
- Verify you are running PHP5 (this is the GoDaddy default at this time)
- Install Jeff Johnson’s Free Traffic Getting SEO Plugin
- Try to activate the plugin and take notice of the information in the header error that I have bolded for you (Site error: the file
/home/content/39/4784739/html/wp-content/plugins/auto-blogster/auto-blogster.php
requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be
installed by the site administrator.) - Login to your Godaddy Account and your WordPress Hosting Control Center
- Click on CONTENT > FILE MANAGER
- Click on CREATE NEW DIRECTORY and name your new directory ionCube
- Copy this code into a text editor like Notepad and save as php5.ini
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = offexpose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = “EGPCS”
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = “a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=”[Zend]
zend_extension = /home/content/39/4784739/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/home/content/39/4784739/html/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.7
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/home/content/39/4784739/html/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.7
zend_extension=/home/content/39/4784739/html/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/home/content/39/4784739/html/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so - Change all my bolded content from step 9 to your information from step 5
- In your WordPress Hosting Control Center click on UPLOAD and upload your php5.ini file into your main html directory
- Download the Linux ioncube Loaders to your computer, unzip and upload into your newly created ioncube folder
IonCube
I Hope these steps help save you a ton of time while trying to install ionCube on GoDaddy WordPress Hosting. Here are the references I used to pull together the information for the settings.
Reference Reading:
IonCube loader on cPanel web Hosts – http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/ioncube/
Installing a Loader on GoDaddy – http://forum.ioncube.com/viewtopic.php?t=2722
iocCube Problem on Godaddy Shared Host – http://forum.ioncube.com/viewtopic.php?t=1481&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
If I can do it! You can do it too! Celebrating Texas country living, down home cooking, family life, figuring stuff out and being a stay-at-home moxie mom computer geek.
Blessings,
Wendy Merritt
The Moxie Mom
XXO (A kiss on each cheek and a hug)
If you enjoyed this article get updates via my RSS feed.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Loading ...
Twitter Comment
@ideasnstuff re: Wordpress plugin w/ IonCube You should have read this: [link to post]
– Posted using Chat Catcher
[...] Installing ionCube on GoDaddy Hosting (themoxiemomblog.com) [...]