I need to test chat engine from arrowchat and as usual I try to document the process in this blog. Arrowchat provide trial for 10 days. This version encrypted with ioncube and the server need to use ioncube loader.
I learn the hard way just to try arrowchat install display 🙂
ee site create chat.score.com --mysql --php7
Remove php 5.6 from system
ee stack remove --php
Check running php process :
ps ax | grep php
1068 ? Ss 0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf)
Copy file .so
ls /usr/lib/php/
20121212 20131226 20151012 20160303 7.0 php-helper php-maintscript-helper php7.0-fpm-reopenlogs session-clean
ls /usr/lib/php/20160303/
igbinary.so imagick.so memcache.so memcached.so msgpack.so redis.so xdebug.so
Send ioncube loader
scp Downloads/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so [email protected]:/root mv /root/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so /usr/lib/php/20160303/
php.ini add in last one :
nano nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/20160303/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so
restart nginx and friends
ee stack restart
PHP5.6-FPM is not installed
Restart : nginx [OK]
Restart : php7.0-fpm[OK]
Restart : mysql [OK]
Restart : postfix [OK]
Upload arrowchat
scp Downloads/arrowchat_trial_v2.0.1.zip [email protected]:/root
mv /root/arrowchat_trial_v2.0.1.zip . cat ../ee-config.php
<?php
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘chat_score_com’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘chat_score_com’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yMlgjwRHUDpQv23’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
tail -f ../logs/error.log
2017/04/18 03:34:56 [error] 2404#0: *28 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: The file /var/www/chat.score.com/htdocs/arrowchat/index.php was encoded by the ionCube Encoder for PHP 5.0 and cannot run under PHP 7.0.
Please ask the provider of the script to provide a version encoded with the ionCube Encoder for PHP 5.6. in Unknown on line 0” while reading response header from upstream, client: 36.77.133.96, server: chat.score.com, request: “GET /arrowchat/ HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9070”, host: “chat.score.com”
Reinstall php 5.6
ee stack install --php
Remove php 7.0
ee stack remove --php7
PHP 7.0 not supported.
Are you sure you to want to remove from server.
Package configuration will remain on server after this operation.
Any answer other than “yes” will be stop this operation : yes
Removing packages, please wait…
Successfully removed packages
PHP5.6-fpm found on system.
Verifying and installing missing packages,
Reupload ioncube for php 5.6
scp Downloads/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so [email protected]:/root mv /root/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so /usr/lib/php/20151012/
edit php.ini
nano /etc/php/5.6/fpm/php.ini
zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/20151012/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so
Restart nginx
ee stack restart --nginx
Restart : nginx [OK]
Update php version to old one
ee site update chat.score.com --php7=off
Summary :
If you want to try arrowchat then you’ll need make sure that you use php 5.6 🙂 . NO php 7 support at this moment.