ioncube installation on cloudpanel

unfortunately, cloudpanel doesnt come with preinstalled ioncubeloader. So here goes the hack, but before doing so, the primary old link that I posted years ago still fits in-

Install ionCube Loader on a CentOS 7

So, later part I’ll just addon how did I solve.
In my case, my cloudpanel was deployed on Debian 12 and I was needing to deploy ioncube for PHP 8.1 (this ioncube is version sensitive). So here goes it-

Step 1: Open the PHP 8.1 Configuration Files

You must uncomment the ionCube loader extension in both the CLI (Command Line Interface) and FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) configuration files. [1, 2]
Connect to your server via SSH as root and open the files using a text editor like nano: 

For CLI:

nano /etc/php/8.1/cli/php.ini

For FPM:

nano /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini

Step 2: Enable the ionCube Extension

You should copy your ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so file directly into the 20210902 directory. 
In Linux/Ubuntu systems, PHP doesn’t store extensions inside the 8.1 folder name; instead, it uses a PHP API internal version number as the directory name. For PHP 8.1, that official directory code is 20210902. 

The Command to Run

While inside your /tmp/ioncube directory, execute this command to copy it to the correct path:

cp ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so /usr/lib/php/20210902/

Next Steps to Finalize
Once the file is safely copied into /usr/lib/php/20210902/, you will just need to reference it in your configuration:
Open your php.ini files:

nano /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini
nano /etc/php/8.1/cli/php.ini

Add or update the line at the very top or bottom of the files:

zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/20210902/ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so

Restart PHP-FPM to apply the changes:

systemctl restart php8.1-fpm

Let me know if you run into any syntax errors when running the copy command or if

php8.1 -v

It should give the ioncube with its version number