Auto install applications with Fantastico [Hack Your Day]

Fantastico script installerIf you have a domain and a webhost, you may be lucky enough to have Fantastico at your disposal. I use Bluehost with all my pages and I have it, it enables me to install applications like Wordpress, Joomla, Durpal, php Wiki and others in seconds, without any uploading and extensive customization.

You are taken through some very short steps where you can enter your username, password, and some other data which is crucial to your install. All other configurations like creating your databases are done under the hood and need no supervision. This method is great for almost any blogger, with the exception of some very advanced power-users who need extra functionality.

Fantastico for me is not really the tool for installing stuff, but for trying them out. Indeed I installed Wordpress first with Fantastico, and now I’m creating custom themes and helping people out with it through Blogtastique. There are many others to choose from though, from blogs and CRM applications, to shopping carts and discussion boards.

The backend of Fantastico is frequently updated, they lag behind release dates only a bit, about a week or so as I’ve seen in the case of Wordpress. If you want to try out some of those complicated scripts that are great for your website Fantastico could be the way to try out and implement them.

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Original post here: Daniel

16 June 2008 | App Independent, Bluehost, Fantastico, Short Cuts, webhost | Comments

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