Installation with HHVM server

If anyone is trying to install and run Post Affiliate Pro or Post Affiliate Network on HHVM server, it won't work without a special setup. Currently there is no option to run PHP loaders (IonCube or ZendGuard) on HHVM server so you need to set up a rule on your server using which you will run all PAP/PAN files via PHP server and not via HHVM server. You can use the following code (goes to a conf file in nginx, but the same theory should work with htaccess etc) :

location ~ /affiliate(.*).php$ {

# PAP installation path (change 'affiliate' to whatever path PAP is coming from)

# It get's served by PHP-FPM (as ionCube isn’t compatible with HHVM)

expires        off;

fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;

fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;

fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_read_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_send_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_CODE default;

fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;

fastcgi_param HTTPS on;

fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;

include        fastcgi_params;

}

location ~ .php$ {

# All other php gets served by HHVM

expires        off;

fastcgi_keep_conn on;

fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/hhvm/sock;

fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;

fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_read_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_send_timeout 60s;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_CODE default;

fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;

fastcgi_param HTTPS on;

fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;

include        fastcgi_params;

}

Another thing to get this to work, was to get the encoder(s) loading before other PHP modules. The easiest way to do this was to add a number at the beginning of the .ini filename:

Here is turned off the ioncube encoding as it uses zendguard loader.

If the opcache loads before the encoders then it causes issues.

Kudos goes to Jim.