While working on a web design for a client, I came to need to install ionCube and enable Zend Optimizer on a Go Daddy server. I typically do not work on servers that do not allow the higher level of access, so this was a bit new. We had all of the lines in the php.ini file that was already installed:
zend_extension=/absolutepath was here/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so
However it just would not work. After going back and forth with tech support, we were sort of left on our own to figure out the issue. We discovered that they require that you rename the php.ini to php5.ini . While this was such a simple thing, we hope that this will save you time if you ever run into one of these quarks during your ionCube or Zend installations.