"The mind of a Mad Tech!"

Recently I came across a ticket at work regarding getting Fantastico installed on a Linux Vps. The issue was that whenever you ran the install script, it fetched the files and then it stated Fantastico was installed. However, if you went to the Fantastico admin section, it simply asked you again to install Fantastico again. If you attempted to do this again, the cycle would repeat.
What I found out was that Perl was outdated as wellas Wget, so it wasn’t installed the files correctly and it wasn’t grabbing them either. So I did the following;

1. Upgrade perl to 5.8.8

2. Updated wget – http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/01/upgrading-wget-for-linux-servers/

3. Removed all instances of Fantastico from  /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/

4. Ran  rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/fantastico

Once I did this, I ran the fastastico install again and it completed successfully.

You might have other experiences, but this helped get Fantastico working for me.

Tags: Cpanel, Fantastico, Linux

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