Prerequisites

• A CentOS 7 x64 instance.
• An Apache web server properly installed. Say the web root directory is /var/www/html.
• PHP version 7.1.
• A sudo user.
• Firewall rules finely tuned. At least the HTTP 80 port should be open.

Step 1: Download and prepare ionCube Loader packages for CentOS 7

Since CentOS 7 is a 64-bit Linux distribution, you should download the ionCube 64-bit Linux package as follows:

cd
wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz -C /usr/lib64/php/modules
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube
sudo cp /usr/local/ioncube/loader-wizard.php /var/www/html
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

Now, an ionCube Loader setup script loader-wizard.php has been copied to the web root directory /var/www/html. We will use that script to Configure and test ionCube Loader on the server.

Note: This tutorial assumes your Document Root is /var/www/html. If you have your web server configured differently, you need to place loader-wizard.php in a directory where you can access it via your web browser.

Step 2: Configure ionCube Loader

1. Point your web browser to http://203.0.113.1/loader-wizard.php to enter the ionCube Loader Wizard interface.
2. In the ionCube Loader Wizard interface, choose the Dedicated or VPS (server with full root ssh access) option.
3. Input hosting provider name and URL as follows:

• Name of your hosting provider AKLWEB HOST
• URL of your hosting provider https://www.aklwebhost.com

4. click the Next button.
5. Create an PHP ini file to specify the location of ionCube Loader for PHP 7.1:echo ‘zend_extension = /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.1.so’ | sudo tee /etc/php.d/00-ioncube.ini

Note: If your version of PHP is different from PHP 7.1, you should specify the proper ionCube Loader file in above command accordingly. Use the command php -v to confirm the PHP version.

6. Restart Apache to load the update:sudo systemctl restart httpd.service
7. Go back to the ionCube Loader Wizard interface, and then use the link click here to test the Loader to test your installation.
8. If nothing goes wrong, you should see the Loader Installed Successfully message.
9. For security purposes, you should delete the IonCube loader wizard script in the web root directory once you pass the test:sudo rm /var/www/html/loader-wizard.php

That’s all. Having the ionCube Loader module properly installed, you are eligible to install any app licensed with ionCube on your server now. Enjoy it.

PHP-based Zikula is an open-source framework for online applications. With Zikula, you can create editable and interactive webpages. It is a cross-platform program that works with every widely used operating system. For database-related tasks, Zikula uses Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL on the back end.

We’ll talk about installing Zikula on a CentOS 7 server in this article.

Prerequisites

• AKLWEB HOST CentOS 7 server instance that has just been deployed.
• A user on your server who is not root but has sudo capabilities set up.
• 192.168.15.110 set as a static IP address on your machine. This would be your server’s primary IP address.

Step 1: Update the system

First, update your system to the latest stable version by running the following command:

sudo yum update -y
sudo reboot

Step 2: Install LAMP Server Packages

You will need to install Apache, MariaDB, PHP and other required PHP modules on your system. You can install all of these packages with the following command:

sudo yum install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-common php-mysql php-mcrypt php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-xmlrpc unzip wget -y

Once the installation is complete, start both Apache and MariaDB services and enable them to start at boot with the following commands:

sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Configure MariaDB Database By default

MariaDB installation is not hardened, so you will need to secure it first. You can secure it with the following script:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Answer all of the questions as follows.

Set root password? [Y/n] n
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next, login to the MariaDB console.

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, enter your MariaDB root password. After logging in, create a database for Zikula:

MariaDB [(none)]>CREATE DATABASE zikuladb;
MariaDB [(none)]>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on zikuladb.* to 'user'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
MariaDB [(none)]>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]>exit

Install Zikula First

you will need to download the latest version of the Zikula CMS from GitHub. You can also download it using the wget command.

wget https://github.com/zikula/core/releases/download/1.4.6/Zikula_Core-1.4.6.build119.zip

Extract the downloaded zip archive.

unzip Zikula_Core-1.4.6.build119.zip

Move the extracted directory into the Apache root directory.

sudo mv Zikula_Core-1.4.6 /var/www/html/zikula

Give necessary permission to zikula directory.

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/zikula

Access Zikula Web Interface

Before accessing Zikula, you will need to allow port 80 through firewalld. You can do this with the following command:

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Open your web browser and type the URL http://192.168.15.110/install.php or http://your-domain.com/install.php, then complete the required the steps to finish the installation.

Thats it. You have successfully installed Zikula on your CentOS 7 server.

Step 1: You just have to make the htaccess.txt file on your local machine.

Step 2: For changing the memory_limit for your website you have to add the below mentioned php code with in the file.

php_value memory_limit 64M

As soon as he has created and updated his file, make sure you save it in the proper format.

Step 3: The next step is to upload that htaccess.txt file using any FTP client software that you are comfortable using.

Step 4: After uploading the file on the server using the FTP account, make sure that you rename the file to .htaccess

Step 5: You have to create another file name named as phpinfo.php file on your local system.

Step 6: We have to use following mentioned code in that particular phpinfo.php file.

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Step 7: Using your FTP account, upload that file on web server.

Step 8: Confirm if the changes have been applied after looking through your web browser.

Note :- A user must know that the steps mentioned above can only be used by customers who have a VPS or a dedicated server hosting account with AKLWEB Host.