Install fantastico on cPanel

A fantastico installation is pretty straight forward. First thing you need to do is obtain a Fantastico license from Netenburg.

One of the most common issues when installing fantastico is a buggy wget install on the server, so a working wget version will need to be installed. Another common issue is cPanels internal php may break, but we will discuss the fix to that later on. To install the working version of wget run the following commands:

rpm -qa wget ;
wget ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
chattr -ia /usr/bin/wget
rpm -e wget ;
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm ;
rpm -qa wget ;

First thing is downloading the Fantastico files to the server.

/scripts/upcp
cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
wget -N http://www.netenberg.com/files/free/fantastico_whm_admin.tgz
tar -xzpf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz
rm -rf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

Once the files have been downloaded, log into WHM with your root account and select “Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin” under the plugin section on the left side of WHM at the bottom.

You will then go the Fantastico main page, where you will select “Click here” under ‘Version Information’ in the middle. Now select the stable version from the drop down menu.

Now follow the remaining steps using the default information, as all of it should be correct, though you may want to double check. Be sure to select “enable” next to suexec if it is installed on the server and also check the VPS section if you have installed this on a VPS.

If you receive cpanel_phpengine errors when logged into Fantastico as end user, run the following command via SSH.

/scripts/makecpphp

You may also run into an ioncube error when trying to log into Fantastico, which can be fixed by logging into WHM as root -> Tweak Settings -> Loader to use for internal cPanel PHP -> IonCube -> Save

If you have any issues with your install, feel free to comment this post.