/etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/…but had not been enabled in this directory also:
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/…which is another directory that needs the same config file in. In my server’s case the config file was named 00-ioncube.ini and consisted of the following:
And with that, voila, cron job works. Can’t get that hour of my life back, though. Update: For the php7.1 servers the zend_extension line read:zend_extension = “/usr/lib/php/20151012/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so”
zend_extension = “/usr/lib/php/20160303/ioncube_loader_lin_7.1.so”