What Is It?

Fantastico De Luxe is the leading autoinstaller for cPanel servers, and it holds a commercial script library. This tool enables Web host clients with the ability to automate the installation of Web applications to a Website. With more than 10,000 installations, it provides more than one million end users with the ability to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems into their web space.

Netenberg offered the first complete solution for Open Source content management systems. Today it is the most popular auto-installation solution being offered by the major dedicated servers suppliers for free or at a very low fee. Leading NOCs will preinstall Fantastico De Luxe with every dedicated server being delivered. But, if your NOC doesn’t provide potential users with this product, server hosts can purchase it from Netenberg, the company that develops this script software.

Who Is it For?

Fantastico De Luxe is for Web host companies that want to integrate this autoinstaller for CPanel servers. With Fantastico the installation procedure for many scripts takes only seconds and can be performed by novices without the need for setting up MySQL databases, importing structure, chmoding files and without the need of other tasks usually associated with installation processes.

The criticism about Fantastico De Luxe is that it frequently isn’t maintained by the ISP; therefore older releases of products with known security problems currently are in use. This means that clients often must update software manually, which creates the usual problems that occur when inexperienced Web host clients try to upload and activate various scripts. With Fantastico the installation procedure for scripts takes only seconds and can be performed by novices without the need of setting up MySQL databases, importing structure, chmoding files and without the need of other tasks usually associated with installations.

One other problem may include the insecure default configuration for many applications. Therefore, while the systems are easy to set up on the server, they also provide opportunities for spammers to write automated scripts which post spam messages on Websites.

Features

Fantastico De Luxe provides Web hosting customers with blog scripts such as WordPress and b2evolution, portals and CMS software such as Drupal and Mambo, customer support, discussion boards, e-Commerce, a FAQ software, guestbooks, hosting billing software, image galleries, mailing list software, polls and surveys, project management, site builders, wikis, and more. Additional features include the ability to set a default language, email notifications to admin for installations and removals, and security and technical updates.

Web host managers can install Fantastico De Luxe in the main directory, in add-on domains and in subdomains. Scripts can be added or subtracted easily, and clients can gain access to directions in multiple languages. Managers also have a complete overview of the installations performed by users. A word of warning, as managers can supply clients with fantastic scripts through Fantastico De Luxe, but other software may be needed. For instance, Fantastico De Luxe can install PerlDesk!, but that software requires an additional domain-based PerlDesk license.

Compatibility

Fantastico De Luxe will run only on CPanel servers that run on FreeBSD or LInux. It requires root access for installation and a working backend (CPanel ports) and PHP installation. If you have compiled your apache with phpsuexec support, you may encounter problems with some of the scripts being installed. Fantastico De Luxe makes use of following shell commands: wget (or a renamed copy thereof, permissions: 700), lynx (permissions: 700), gzip, cp, mv, rm. End users access Fantastico De Luxe through their CPanel and they will need one MySQL database for each separate installation.

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