Fantastico is not installed at the default location

February 18, 2010 • By admincPanel

If you see the error "Fantastico is not installed at the default location /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico", this means Fantastico was installed in a non-standard location or was not installed at all.

Solution 1: Move Fantastico to Default Location

If Fantastico is installed in a different location, you can create a symlink or move it:

ln -s /path/to/fantastico /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico

Solution 2: Reinstall Fantastico

If Fantastico is not installed at all, you need to purchase and install it. Fantastico is a commercial product available from Netenberg.

To install, SSH to your server as root and follow the installation instructions from the Fantastico website.

Solution 3: Use Softaculous Instead

Softaculous is a free alternative to Fantastico that provides one-click installation of hundreds of scripts including WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. It integrates with cPanel and is available from:

cd /usr/local
wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh