Plesk 8.0 & Zend Optimizer

[CLCook]

Well, I found out the hard way that Plesk 8 and Zend Optimizer aren't compatible "out of the box".

I figured I'd post the solution so that everyone else doesn't have the problem.

Edit php.ini and remove the following code:

[Zend]
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.0.1
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.0.1
zend_optimizer.version=3.0.1
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

Edit "/etc/php.d/ioncube-loader.ini" to the following:

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php4/php_ioncube_loader_lin_4.3.so

[Zend]
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.0.1
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.0.1
zend_optimizer.version=3.0.1
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

Notice that the IonCube loader extension is ABOVE the Zend Optimizer code. The order that the extensions load is very important.

 

[Trexhost]

Very good point. Although I use Cpanel myself for my servers, I do have many customers who prefer to user plesk and have problems with there plesk and zend