Installing Tiki via Fantastico

Background on Siteground

Siteground.com is a typical Fantastico host and one of the Tiki friendly hosts so it is used an an example for this documentation. All other Fantastico hosts will be very similar. Shared hosting provides mainly a inexpensive, easy hosting service for low traffic wikis. Their customer service is very good, and their interface is user friendly, but their servers are heavily loaded and sometimes tiki performance is kinda slow. Overall a good bet for a starter wiki host.

Includes CPanel and Fantastico - includes installation through fantastico and webanalysis and other tools through cpanel

Installation

After securing an account and choosing a domain name, installation is straightforward. Installation is either install by FTP, or with Fantastico with siteground you cannot use SSH?.

Manage Your Account.

Cpanel is a utility that allows you to manage your site without knowing unix or programming. To find cpanel, login, and click as shown below.

Access CPanel

You'll see the following options. Click on cpanel and login.

Access Fantastico

When CPanel comes up, ignore most of it for now. Click on Fantastico at the bottom.

Install Tiki

Fantastico is a installer. You'll use it to install Tiki. Once fantastico comes up, click on Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.

Then, select new installation. Notice for example that Tiki has been installed on karateforge.com. This same tool is used for future upgrades and remembers past installations.