ionCube Loader is a PHP extension that allows a web-server to execute PHP files that have been encoded using ionCube Encoder and is required to run the majority of commercial PHP Applications. In this article, we will be installing ionCube Loader on CentOS 7 for PHP 7.1. Instructions for other platforms may vary. - 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](https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-use......