How To Inform Fantastico That You Moved An Install

Before we get started this guide assumes your host uses the CPanel management software for your site.

When I started my Big Tech Blog website I was hit with an interesting problem, I had to figure out how to inform Fantastico that I moved the install from “/technewsblog/” to “/bigtechblog/” (the domain points to that directory). After renaming the folder Fantastico yelled at me about having to manually upgrade the WordPress install and such.

This was expected of course, because I moved the install. After some tinkering in my home folder I quickly figured out how to inform Fantastico that the install moved.

1. Go into the file manager in CPanel. The icon looks like this:
2. Make sure you are in your home folder and click on the folder icon next to the “.fantasticodata” folder. This folder is where Fantastico keeps all of its installation data, so be careful in here!
3. Next click the folder icon next to the program you moved, which was in my case WordPress.
4. You should now see a file name that is in a format similar to this: “yourdomain.com | installation_directory”. In my case this was “nusuni.com | technewsblog”.
5. Click on the file name (not the icon) and then choose “Edit File” from the menu. You should now see data similar to the data below. I took out my database name for obvious security reasons.
   $thisdb = ""; $thisdomain = "nusuni.com"; $thisscriptpath = "/home/nusuni/public_html/technewsblog";
   ?>
6. All you have to do is change the “thisscriptpath” option so it points to your new installation path. Everything after public_html is where your website content is stored, so do not change anything before that. All I had to do for my install was change “technewsblog” to “bigtechblog”.
7. Click save and change the file name so it reflects your changes. Just like above I only had to replace “technewsblog” with “bigtechblog”. This step is not required, but it helps keep things more tidy.
8. Go back to the file manager and delete the old file if you changed the configuration file’s name. Otherwise Fantastico will think you have two installs.
9. You are now done! When you go into Fantastico and view your install it should reflect the changes.

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