[zend extension ioncube loader problem]

Hi!

I'm trying to install a php product that requires ioncube loader. I have followed several guides (they are all the same) for how to install it.

 

Running ioncube-loader-helper.php tells me the location of the php.ini file. The server has a set of ioncube loaders, and the helper tells me i need version 5.2, which is there. There are no zend extension lines in php.ini, so at the very bottom of the file i insert the line as it says.

 

Ths is the line:

zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

i also tried:

zend_extension="/usr/local/lib/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so"

 

I restarted apache2 each time. Finally I delibaretly tried to cause an error by inserting some random characters in php.ini and restarted apache2, and it didn't even react. Since ioncube-loader-helper found the same php.ini file as I was editing, I thought the file must be correct. Any ideas?

 

php version: 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.5