Fantastico is a feature included in the cPanel which is in technical terms known as a commercial script library that automates the installation of any web application to a website. This scripts are generally executed from the administrative area of a website which includes control panel such as cPanel hosting accounts. Fantastico’s web site claims that they are installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide.  When a new website is created Fantastico scripts are usually used to create tables in a database, install software, adjust permissions, and modify web server configuration files.

Back up is the most important thing in hosting a business online. So lets see some steps to restore the back up of Fantastico. There are two ways of restoring a Fantastico backup. The first, and of course the easiest is to raise a ticketo your hosting service provider and  request Support Team to do it for you.

In second opinion you should have to take and restore the backup yourself.
Just download the entire Fantastico backup archive of the application. Which is located in the fantastico backups/ directory.

• Extract the backup archive file on your local computer.

• Now get connected with your account using an FTP client and delete all of the script’s files.

• Upload all your files from the extracted archive to your account using the FTP client.

• Enter User name and Password to get Login to your cPanel and click on the Databases box and click on phpMyAdmin.

• Select the database which is used by the script and empty all tables.

• Click on the ‘Import’ tab and browse your local copy of the backup archive until you find a file called backup.sql.

• Now import the database.

Tech support team at any web host plays an important role to solve any technical queries to keep on running any business and team working at Bodhost UK hosting services has enough knowledge to solve any customer queries in small amount of time.

The hosting has many measures through which cPanel hosting are counted as best to host any website because of its Operating system level security features and functionality. For an administrative control over every directory of a hosting resources on the web server a file called .htacess has some permission and this file also called as distributed configuration file provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more rules is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all sub directories thereof. If you want to redirect all the URLs  from one blog to another blog URLs then add the following rewrite rules in .htaccess files.

For Example :
If we redirect an old blog from “http://www.xyz.co.uk/blog to new domain http://www.abc.com. You just have to add the following rewrite rules into old blog .htaccess files means when any one access the URL ” http://www.xyz.co.uk/blog/anything will automatically redirected to“http://www.abc.com/anything ”.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bestdesigns.co.inblog
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bestdesigns.co.in/blog$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule  ^$  http://www.indianwebportal.com/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.indianwebportal.com/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Please take a Note of this : Replace “xyz.co.uk/blog” equal to your old blog url and also Replace “www.abc.com” equal to new blog url.

PhpWebSite is registered under the open source license. It is designed and developed using PHP scripting language, and with the use of different libraries  of  PHP Extension and Application Repository called  PEAR. Phpwebsite is a  content management system called CMS oftenly used by associations and educational users. PhpWebSite is designed and developed to increase easiness to build and update websites. It is a customizable, modular package where every component can be installed, updated or modified by the phpWebSite administrator. PhpWebSite adaptation extends the user selectable themes and HTML templates. It performs functions like blogging, photo galleries, and customizing bulletin boards and feature-rich as dedicated web programs such as Word Press, Gallery Project, or phpBB.

It takes only few step to Install PHP website from Fantastico :

1) Launch your Fantastico application and logging with your Login details.

2) You will see a tab on the left side with different categories and in Content management you will find phpWebsite link.

3) Click on it. You will see a phpWebsite page with Logo and a link towards New Installation.

4) It will ask you to provide the name of the directory or you can left it blank for installation in the root directory.

5) Please enter Admin access data with Admin E-main ID to get all the details of phpWebsite installation.

6) Click on Install phpWebiste button. It will redirect you to a new button to Finalize the Installation with “Finish Installation”.

7) PhpWesite has been Installed successfully and you can configure it according to your needs.

8) Please click on the URL for trial and login with your Admin login details in phpWebsite Interface.

9) Your Installation has been listed on the script home page and you can Visit your site from this link or either remove it.

PhpWebsite is a powerful content management system with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web page maker and many more.

To install Drupal from Fantastico you have to follow some steps. Make a successful login into the cPanel and use Fantastico to automatically install any of the script mentioned in the left side menu of the Fantastico.

• In Content management system at left you will see Drupal make a click a short description will come up with a default link to the home page of Drupal.

• Drupal is a content management system and advanced portal with collaborative book, search engine friendly URLs, online helps, roles and Full content search. Click on the New Installation link to install Drupal.

• A page will come up with different textboxes like On which domain do you want to install it?  In which directory? Remember on thing you can left this field blank to continue installation in root directory. Also enter Admin Username and Password in the following textboxes.

• Complete the procedure bu writing your Admin email id in the next textbox and Enter Install Drupal.

• Click on Finish Installation it will redirect you and you will see Installed Drupal directories after that to login into your new installation.

• You can login via your Admin Username and Password to Enter into your Drupal Admin account.

These simple steps are required to install Drupal to an account using Fantastico.

phpBB is named after the term PHP Bulletin board. It is a popular and free forum package coded and developed in PHP scripting language. It is available under the GNU General Public License, and it is open source free software. The source code was written primarily to run on PHP 3.0 and 4.0 the minimum requirement to PHP 4.0.3 due to security. It is a pre installed language packs, styles and several mods which can be turned on in various combinations with only few mouse clicks. PhpBB provides a simpler administration interface and styles for customizing the application according to webmasters need.

How to Install phpBB from Fantastico :

• To install phpBB you have to launched Fantastico application from your cPanel.

• In discussion board section on left side you will see link to install phpBB.

• Click the Link and it willl redirect you to the phpBB section and you will see phpBB installation screen. Please read all the information written on the page to understand the easiness in phpBB.

• Click on the Installation directory and enter the name of the directory you want to install in or leave this field blank for installation in the root directory.

• Once you done with that please enter your admin access data by entering Admin name and password in the textboxes.

• Please enter your site name and short description by providing a name. Enter Admin email address to get the details.

• Once you get complete with all the information click on Install phpBB and confirm it by clicking finish Installation.

• The PhpBB is successfully installed on your account and is ready to configuring it.

• Please click on the directory path link to login into your new installation.

• Use your administrator login details to enter in to the phpBB bulletin broad. Your new installation has been listed and you will see a link to visit script’s home page or you can remove it by clicking on Remove.

PhpBB is a widely used popular open source bulletin board package that works really well with simple user interface because it allows easy customization that keeps the PHP code separate from the HTML.

WordPress is a CMS- Content Management System, available on open source platform used for publishing blogs with power of PHP and MySQL and also a web software which is used to design and develop a beautiful website or blog. It is free and available with thousands of plugins and interactive themes to transform your website into almost anything you can imagine with content and CSS. It is a web template system using a template processor where user can re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML scripts. WordPress is a great product it has numerous advantages like it is easy-to-use,  quite powerful blogging tool and with easy GUI (Graphical user interface).

There are certain steps to be followed if you want to Install WordPress from Fantastico :

• Enter cPanel login details and accessed the Fantastico application.

• After a successful logging you will see a WordPress link on the left side of the browser. Please make a click to install WordPress.

• It will show a table with WordPress heading and a link like”New Installation” for New Installation.

• It will ask for your domain name and you can install directory here but it is recommended that the default is used.

• Enter you admin details with Email password and once you have finished with that and ready to Install WordPress. Click finish Installation.

• The WordPress is been installed.

• For more details about installation can also be send to your Email address just Enter an Email address and click on Send Email button at the bottom.

• Click on Back to WordPress and check weather it is been running or not click on “Visit Site”.

• Please make a  logging via Administrator Username and Password and you will the admin area of your WordPress and you can easily modify any WordPress setting.

Fantastico is an application system specifically programmed to make installing multiple CMSs’, portal, blogs etc easy. For example you want to get discussion forum for your website visitors or a blog to share articles with everyone, you can do this from Fantastico. You can install multiple CMS/scripts in your hosting account with some clicks.

Fantastico can be accessed from cPanel hosting control panel.

In Fantastico you have multiple option for scripts or applications, there is no restrictions on the number of times you can install or remove the applications or how many scripts you can have installed at one time.

Bodhost.co.uk provider Fantastico with all Linux-cPanel Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting, Cloud server and Dedicated Server Web Hosting packages.

Q. Are all scripts in Softaculous maintained by eUKhost regularly? Could you confirm that eUKhost.com maintains an up-to-date and secure list of mods and scripts?

:- Softaculous is a cPanel control panel addon and available on all our Linux cPanel Hosting plans at no additional cost. It is an external library of scripts which is integrated with cPanel for customer convenience. As and when Softaculous releases updates, we also run Softaculous upgrades. Having said that, there have been past instances where script version upgradations on softaculous have caused a few issues with cPanel compatibility owing to difference in versions of complementary modules. This has been a reason for one set of updates to be actually rolled back. eUKhost.com will always keep softaculous upto date till the time it does not hinder cPanel modules functionality.

Drupal Website Hosting

Do you offer Drupal Hosting?

- Yes, Drupal is supported on all our web hosting packages. PHP and MySQL are the important requirements for  Drupal Hosting and they are available on all our web hosting plans. We would suggest a linux web hosting package for hosting a Drupal Website as PHP MySQL is the perfect combination on linux servers along with cPanel.

Drupal can be installed at a one click through Fantastico which makes it much easier. cPanel is the most easy to use control panel and allows you to manage database and other tasks of Drupal application.

All our servers are Drupal-optimized and performance oriented. Our support team have expertise in managing Drupal websites and they are available 24×7 to provide technical assistance.

Drupal is one of the leading content management systems (CMS) around. Drupal is free and open source CMS written in PHP programming language. Power features and easy management tools of Drupal supports variety of websites. Small websites, blogs or major community websites can be published via Drupal. Drupal meets the website requirements of all small and big organisations. Drupal includes Community web portals,Social Networking sites,E-commerce applications ,Personal web sites or blogs and many such portals.

Drupal is easy to install and use where you won’t need to be expert in programming language. Search engine friendly URL’s, categories and search functions are some of the features on Drupal. Additional modules with Drupal adds more functionality to a website. Drupal installation can easily be converted to a forum, blog, wiki or any other website as per requirements.

All you need to do is open a Drupal web hosting account where you can easily have the Drupal application installed.

WordPress Blog Hosting UK

Do you support  WordPress blog hosting?
Ans: Yes, wordpress is supported on all our servers. You can opt for our Linux WordPress hosting or Windows Web hosting package as per your space and bandwidth requirements. You can install WordPress on your domains hosted with us as WordPress works fine on all our servers. If you have a cPanel hosting account with us then you should have no problems in installing WordPress from the Fantastico section of your cPanel control panel. You can take a look at Fantastico Scripts to learn more about the scripts included in Fantastico.

Additionally, we have PHP 5.1.2 on some of the servers and PHP 5.2.6 on the other servers, so you should not face any problems when configuring WordPress blog.

WordPress will give you some code to add in .htaccess of your account which will enable mod_rewrite for your account and your WordPress blog will run smoothly without any problems.

WordPress is the most widely used blog software around which available for free and can be installed very easily. WordPress provides rich set of features which can be easily added on the blog. WordPress Hosting with eUKhost provide you with technical assistance 24×7 from experts, web hosting on blog optimized servers and lots of other web hosting features at an affordable price.

Powerful administration panel of WordPress allows you to easily write posts, push button and publish the article immediately. Various categories can be added and also images can be uploaded along thumbnail support i.e file can be attached in article. WordPress has inbuilt serach functionality and ability to set different permissions for blog users.

WordPress is easily customizable . Appearance of Blog content can easily be changed by edting the wordpress template which can be installed on the blog. There are variety of free worpress templates which can downloaded and installed easily on the blog.You just need to use template editor toll and the template tags.

You can make your WordPress blog a powerful website by adding plugins to it. There are large number of plugins developed by communities to add more feture to WordPress.

You may check our free WordPress themes at http://www.eukhost.com/wordpress-themes.php