ioncube install centos 6 zend error

i currently have vestacp installed on a centos 6 webserver,

zend is installed and i believe ioncube is installed however ioncube states that it is infact not installed.

machine:

Linux fellio.example.com 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 18 19:25:05 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

here is my php info which indicates ioncube loaded:

php -v PHP 5.6.29RC1 (cli) (built: Nov 24 2016 10:20:09) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) v6.0.8, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by ionCube Ltd. with Zend Guard Loader v3.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2015, by Zend Technologies 

here is my modules:

ls /usr/lib64/php/modules/ bcmath.so dom.so gettext.so ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so mysqli.so pdo_sqlite.so shmop.so sysvmsg.so wddx.so xsl.so bz2.so exif.so gmp.so json.so mysqlnd.so phar.so simplexml.so sysvsem.so xmlreader.so ZendGuardLoader.so calendar.so fileinfo.so iconv.so ldap.so mysql.so posix.so soap.so sysvshm.so xmlrpc.so zip.so ctype.so ftp.so imap.so mbstring.so pdo_mysql.so pspell.so sockets.so tidy.so xml.so curl.so gd.so intl.so mcrypt.so pdo.so recode.so sqlite3.so tokenizer.so xmlwriter.so 

php.d output:

00-Ioncube.ini 20-dom.ini 20-gmp.ini 20-mcrypt.ini 20-recode.ini 20-sysvmsg.ini 20-xmlwriter.ini 30-wddx.ini 20-bcmath.ini 20-exif.ini 20-iconv.ini 20-mysqlnd.ini 20-shmop.ini 20-sysvsem.ini 20-xsl.ini 30-xmlreader.ini 20-bz2.ini 20-fileinfo.ini 20-imap.ini 20-pdo.ini 20-simplexml.ini 20-sysvshm.ini 30-mysqli.ini 30-xmlrpc.ini 20-calendar.ini 20-ftp.ini 20-intl.ini 20-phar.ini 20-soap.ini 20-tidy.ini 30-mysql.ini 40-json.ini 20-ctype.ini 20-gd.ini 20-ldap.ini 20-posix.ini 20-sockets.ini 20-tokenizer.ini 30-pdo_mysql.ini 40-zip.ini 20-curl.ini 20-gettext.ini 20-mbstring.ini 20-pspell.ini 20-sqlite3.ini 20-xml.ini 30-pdo_sqlite.ini ZendGuard.ini 

00-Ioncube.ini output:

cat 00-Ioncube.ini zend_extension = /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so 

ZendGuard.ini output:

 cat ZendGuard.ini ; Enable Zend Guard extension zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/ZendGuardLoader.so zend_loader.enable=1 

php.ini:

located on pastebin as to big to post on here: http://pastebin.com/MWS9fQ8b

error:

 service vesta restart Stopping vesta-nginx: [ OK ] Stopping vesta-php: [ OK ] Starting vesta-nginx: [ OK ] Starting vesta-php: Failed loading /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so: /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so: undefined symbol: zend_execute_ex [ OK ] 

error log shows:

sh: gradm: command not found 

when using the loader-wizard to install ioncube i get the following error:

 Please note that the following problems currently exist with the ionCube Loader installation: The following ini files could not be found by the Wizard: /etc/php.ini,/etc/php.d/20-bcmath.ini,/etc/php.d/20-bz2.ini,/etc/php.d/20-calendar.ini,/etc/php.d/20-ctype.ini,/etc/php.d/20-curl.ini,/etc/php.d/20-dom.ini,/etc/php.d/20-exif.ini,/etc/php.d/20-fileinfo.ini,/etc/php.d/20-ftp.ini,/etc/php.d/20-gd.ini,/etc/php.d/20-gettext.ini,/etc/php.d/20-gmp.ini,/etc/php.d/20-iconv.ini,/etc/php.d/20-imap.ini,/etc/php.d/20-intl.ini,/etc/php.d/20-ldap.ini,/etc/php.d/20-mbstring.ini,/etc/php.d/20-mcrypt.ini,/etc/php.d/20-mysqlnd.ini,/etc/php.d/20-pdo.ini,/etc/php.d/20-phar.ini,/etc/php.d/20-posix.ini,/etc/php.d/20-pspell.ini,/etc/php.d/20-recode.ini,/etc/php.d/20-shmop.ini,/etc/php.d/20-simplexml.ini,/etc/php.d/20-soap.ini,/etc/php.d/20-sockets.ini,/etc/php.d/20-sqlite3.ini,/etc/php.d/20-sysvmsg.ini,/etc/php.d/20-sysvsem.ini,/etc/php.d/20-sysvshm.ini,/etc/php.d/20-tidy.ini,/etc/php.d/20-tokenizer.ini,/etc/php.d/20-xml.ini,/etc/php.d/20-xmlwriter.ini,/etc/php.d/20-xsl.ini,/etc/php.d/30-mysql.ini,/etc/php.d/30-mysqli.ini,/etc/php.d/30-pdo_mysql.ini,/etc/php.d/30-pdo_sqlite.ini,/etc/php.d/30-wddx.ini,/etc/php.d/30-xmlreader.ini,/etc/php.d/30-xmlrpc.ini,/etc/php.d/40-json.ini,/etc/php.d/40-zip.ini This may be due to server restrictions in place. The necessary zend_extension line could not be found in the configuration. Please also note the following: The correct loader for your system has been found at /home/admin/web/websiteguardtest.tk/public_html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so. You may wish to copy the loader from /home/admin/web/websiteguardtest.tk/public_html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.6.so to /usr/lib64/php/modules 

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i disabled open_base dir in the template files associated as i thought this could be the issue but its not, i am not sure what the issue is with ioncube and my vestacp machine any help would be apprecaited.