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Tag: php-fpm

  • WHMCS cron job says ioncube not installed despite ioncube being installed

    This issue drove me batty for an hour – after installing WHMCS with PHP’s Ioncube extension installed successfully the cronjob required by WHMCS would not run, complaining about Ioncube not being installed. Yet php -v showed that it was in fact installed.

     

    What gives?

     

    Turns out that Ioncube had been enabled for PHP-FPM in the following directory:

     

    /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/

     

    …but had not been enabled in this directory also:

     

    /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/

     

    …which is another directory that needs the same config file in. In my server’s case the config file was named 00-ioncube.ini and consisted of the following:

     

    zend_extension = “/usr/lib/php/20151012/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so”

     

    And with that, voila, cron job works. Can’t get that hour of my life back, though.

     

    Update: For the php7.1 servers the zend_extension line read:

     

    zend_extension = “/usr/lib/php/20160303/ioncube_loader_lin_7.1.so”

  • PHP contact form returns 504 gateway error after moving to Digital Ocean

    This one had me scratching my head for a while – using php7.0-fpm and the latest nginx on Debian 8 Jessie I was seeing our PHP contact form working correctly but returning a Gateway 504 error upon submission, which was resulting in a great deal of resubmitted forms and error notifications from users.

     

    This only started occuring after we moved our site to Digital Ocean – it turns out that it was a IP priority issue and the following resolved it:

     

    vim /etc/gai.conf

     

    and uncommenting the following line:

     

    precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

    Then a reboot. Voila, the contact form worked properly again.