Every Linux hosting account from 600host.net comes with Fantastico, an easy to use script installer. The icon is located at the bottom right hand side of your cPanel control panel.

Clicking on the Fantastico icon will bring up the following menus:

Navigation - you are currently at Fantastico Home. To return to your cPanel control panel, click Control Panel Home

Blogs - a selection of blogs including WordPress and Nucleus you can install

Content Management - a selection of great CMS software you can install on your site including Mambo and Joomla

Customer Relationship - if you’re a reseller there are some great packages in here, including Crafty Syntax LiveHelp (the same software we currently use for our LiveChat) and some great support ticket packages

Discussion Boards - including phpBB (you can also install YaBB from the cPanel main page)

eCommerce - including Zen Cart and osCommerce

FAQs

Guestbooks

Hosting Billing - again great if you’re a reseller, including the fantastic open source phpCoin

Image Galleries

Mailing Lists

Polls and Surveys (a great add-on for your site)

Project Management

Wikis

Other Scripts (some great PHP scripts here)

Extras - in here you can:

• Change the language
• Change the appearance of the side menus
• Set E-mail notifications of installations of Fantastico scripts
• Get an overview of packages you have already installed

The majority of scripts includes are open source - that means they are completely free to use and free of advertising. To install a script, select your required script and select New Installation. Also on this page are links to the support forum and a short description of the script.

Enter a directory you wish to install your script to - this has to be a directory which doesn’t already exist (for example if you were installing an eCommerce script you could choose the directory ’shop’ so your script would be installed at www.yourdomain.ext/shop, or leave blank to install in the root directory, ie www.yourdomain.ext).

Choose a username and password and click ‘Install’. Fantastico will then install the script and set up any required MySQL database for you, so all you need to do now is log in!