Deploy Website Without Source Code

I have developed website in php. I want deploy it without source code. Is it possible with php? Can I convert my website code to some intermediate form and then deploy it ?

Solution 1:

You can use the Zend guard to encode your code so it can't be reverse engineered...

http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard/

Solution 2:

PHP HTML and JavaScript are open source language so you can do nothing to encode them which can't be decode. One way is Zend Guard - Encode Your PHP Applications for php which can be decoded by sites like these: Websites for zend decoder online.

But the good news is if you always use the last version of Zend Guard it can't be reversed, because still there is no decoder came for it.

Another way is, you buy a VPS (Virtual private server) or Dedicated Server and deploy your source code in there and you just sell your web application usage to your customers (not the source code). So just, you have the user and password of host and no one can see your application code.

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Update Recently, I've used ionCube. It's fine. However you need to change your deployment process a bit. Before transferring code to deployment server you need to encrypt it by ionCube. After that you should install ionCube loaders on the server by which php can load the encrypted codes.

Solution 3:

if you are going to host your website on shared hosting or any thirdparty hosting, you may use zend encoder or ioncube php encoder, they will protect your source code.

http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard

http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php