Fantastico, PHPList and blank pages
I’ve lately had a few clients complaining about their PHPList installs not working properly when using Fantastico, I tried it out myself and it does indeed seem to be somewhat broken. Usually when you go the adminstration page, it simply shows and empty page and if you view the source for that page, it contains something along of these lines:
The cause of this problem seems to usually be a default Fantastico setting that is not properly set, to fix this, you will need to edit your /config/config.php and replace the following:
define("PLUGIN_ROOTDIR","/tmp");
With the following, of course replacing username by your cPanel username and making sure that the path for your account is correct (sometimes, it’s home2 instead of home).
define("PLUGIN_ROOTDIR","/home/username/tmp");
After a few days of research on this and a few angry clients, it’s all figured out so I guess why not share them with other system administrators, it’ll save them some trouble!
Thanks very much for this post. I was going crazy trying to figure out why my PHP List installation wasn’t displaying on the page but your information solved my problem. Good work!
thanks for this info, it helped me fix exactly that problem.
Thank you for this great post and saving me all the trouble and especially the time you went through to fix the problem.
I am truly grateful.
Thank you for the solution. I was in a cold sweat because of a mail campaign tomorrow until I found this.
Thank you, thank you. I just would add that you have to replace username in the “/home/username/tmp” with your actual username.
My mailing list worked for about a year, and then suddenly it started to show empty page. Your solution fixed this right away!
Thanks for the help. This was very important for me. Thanks!!!