Forum just stopped working

[Grumbledook]

Hi, my licence just expired and now my forum has stopped working and I get the following message:

Site error: the file /home/wwwchar/public_html/pokerforums/includes/functions_vbseo.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so to be installed by the site administrator.

I ran the testscript and it says that ioncube isn't installed

I also can't use the admin area to turn vbseo off, I didn't want to renew the licence if its not going to work now cause ioncube has been removed?

Or is it not working because the licence has ran out? In which case i'll happily renew it.

[briansol]

this is not license related. vbseo is a lifetime product (only updates and support require a renew)

looks like your server company messed around with the ioncube loaders, or installed a new php version on your server without telling you.

you can manually turn off the plugin
/includes/config_vbseo.php

line 48

define('VBSEO_ENABLED', 1);

set to 0

and rename your htacces to htaccess.txt

[xpfUK]

ionCube loaders have been updated, would this cause the problem ?

PHP Encoder, protection, installer and performance tools from ionCube: Loader Download

[dodjer420]

I have the same problem. What hosting company are you with?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

looks like your host has changed configuration and ioncube is not supported anymore. You can temporarily disable vBSEO by removing (or renaming) .htaccess and includes/functions_vbseo.php files.
Then upload test.php script, check the compatibility. Also uou might want to contact your hosting support for more details.

[Clancy]

I have this problem too. I'm with Lunarpages.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Please check my post above for the workaround or open a support ticket if you need assistance.

[dodjer420]

I found out that cPanel had done some automatic updates to my VPS resulting in IonCube being removed. So reinstalling IonCube fixed it

[xpfUK]

That's interesting dodjer420, not sure if this was the case for me however I have come across this error about ionCube loaders on 4 sites today. None appeared to be using vBSEO but still displayed the ionCube error about loaders. Could it be cPanel or some other update process. More than coincidental that the error is appearing on sites at about the same time period.

[vol_freak]

i'm having the same error and I am also with Lunarpages. Any advice? I've got vbseo temporarily disabled.

[vol_freak]

Issue resolved. I just had to reinstall ioncube. I figured it out.

[Johny1]

This may sound dumb, but can someone please tell me how to reinstall ioncube.

[Mert Gökçeimam]

edit your php.ini and before any zend line just paste the following (matching with your php version and ioncube folder path) then restart apache

zend_extension = /var/www/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

[The Bish]

Disabling vbseo did not even help get rid of my error.

[xpfUK]

Try renaming functions_vbseo.php to functions_vbseo.phpBak
It may allow you to get into your forum.