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Below a very simple way to install Ioncube on a server running Centos 8.
Feel free to read.

Log on to the console of your server and if you do not have installed httpd and php make its installation:

yum install httpd php php-common php-cli -y

Check the version of php command:

php --version

is the result:

PHP 7.2.11 (cli) (built: Oct  9 2018 15:09:36) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

We charge to our server Ioncube loader:

wget http://downloads3.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

Just unpack the downloaded pack

tar xzf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

We check on where they are loaded extensions to php

php -i | grep extension_dir

The result should look like this

extension_dir => /usr/lib64/php/modules => /usr/lib64/php/modules

Move to this directory file ioncube

cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/

We edit our php.ini file and add it in line:

nano /etc/php.ini

zend_extension = /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so

Our server httpd reload command

systemctl restart httpd

Now, after checking our php version should already be visible our ioncube

php -v

PHP 7.2.11 (cli) (built: Oct  9 2018 15:09:36) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with the ionCube PHP Loader + ionCube24 v10.3.9, Copyright (c) 2002-2019, by ionCube Ltd.