Fantastico De Luxe is an automatic installer for many 3rd party programs such as Wordpress, Joomla, and OsCommerce. It integrates directly with your hosting application such as cPanel. Fantastico is most common automation software used by hosting companies. I personally do not prefer Fantastico, instead opt to use Installatron instead. It has a much better interface with many more features.

The Problem

After installing Fantastico De Luxe, you may receive this error when trying to access it from cPanel:

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Fantastico is not installed at the default location  /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico. Either move the Fantastico  directory from it's current location to  /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico OR enable ioncube loaders in WHM  -> Tweak settings.

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The Fix

First check to see if Ioncube is enabled. Do as the error says, log into Web Host Manager (WHM) » Tweak Settings » PHP. Then look for the last item: cPanel PHP loader. Select ‘ioncube’.

If that did not work, try rebuilding cPanel’s internal PHP (not the one used by Apache) and restarting cPanel:

    /scripts/makecpphp
    /etc/init.d/cpanel restart

Errors

You may receive an error while running /scripts/makecpphp. When I first ran it, I had this one:

checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... no  
configure: error: Problem with libjpeg.(a|so). Please check config.log for more information.  

Make sure you have libjpeg installed:

    yum install libjpeg  
    Package libjpeg-6b-37.i386 already installed and latest version  

If it is already installed (like the above example), simply remove it and re-install it:

    rpm -e --nodeps libjpeg-6b-37.i386  
    yum install libjpeg  

Now try again to run /scripts/makecpphp and restart cPanel. Everything should be good to go. Obviously you’ll need to modify your commands above depending on your libjpeg version.