Monthly Archives: February 2012
Coldfusion 7 Resources Increased
We are please to announce that we have drastically increased resources on our Coldfusion 7 Web Hosting Products.
The increases see diskpace increases up to 400% and all Coldfusion 7 hosting packages now benefit from Unlimited Bandwidth.
Existing clients have already had their web hosting packages upgraded and we’re confident that this will benefit all.
how to get ioncube_loader working on IIS6 & IIS 7 php 5.3.8
We were recently tasked with php issues on a clients 2008 server in which their billing application would return wierd and wonderful errors.
The solution was to install and load php 5.3.8 Win32 VC9 x86 onto their server and hopefully resolve the issue.
After enabling and installing php 5.3.8 our initial problems were that php was returning blank pages with no errors being logged despite us enabling error debugging and logging.
Our initial attempt saw us download the Ioncube loaders from Ioncube’s site. For this part you want find the version of ioncube that matches your php version, and then download the zip file, ie Windows VC9 (x86)
WE extracted the files and placed them into php’s ext folder only to find that IIS would not read the files as they werent prefixed php_ so we renamed ioncube_loader_win_5.3.dll to php_ioncube_loader_win_5.3.dll, reloaded IIS’s php extensions and were now able to see the extension and enable it.
Upon enabling we were presented with the following error
Site error: the file <b>C:\domains\xxx.domain.com\admin\index.php</b> requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_win_5.3.dll to be installed by the site administrator.
C:\Users\Administrator>c:\apps\php-5.3.8-Win32-VC9-x86\php-cgi.exe c:\domains\xxx.domain.com\admin\index.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.8
Content-type: text/html
The ionCube Loader is a Zend-Engine extension and not a module Please specify the Loader using ‘zend_extension’ in php.ini
At this point we undid the changes, renamed the dll back to its original file name and added the following line the php.ini
zend_extension=”C:\apps\php-5.3.8-Win32-VC9-x86\ext\ioncube_loader_win_5.3.dll”
Voila, success
