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Ideally, one can restore Fantastico back-ups using two methods. The simplest and probably the least time consuming process is to get in touch with your cpanel web hosting provider and getting your Fantastico restored from them.

Now it depends on the web hosting provider whether to charge for that or do it as a part of customer service.

An alternative method is to get fantastico back-up restored on your own. The below steps can help you restore your Fantastico back-ups:

Step 1 : Downloading the complete Fantastico back-up archive of the application. You would find that in your fantasticobackups/ directory.

Step 2 : Extracting the downloaded copy onto your local machine.

Step 3 : Using a secure and reliable FTP client, get connected to your web hosting account. Then delete every script files.

Step 4 : Now, you must upload all the files that you had extracted in Step 2.

Step 5 : Access your cPanel, then the Databases and select phpMyAdmin.

Step 6 : Choose the database being used by the script. Incase you aren’t sure about it, you’ll need to check that in your configuration.php, config.php or settings.php file. Once sure you must empty all the tables.

Step 7 : Using the Import tab search for a file named ‘ backup.sql ‘

Step 8 : Import the database.

You should ideally be able to view your restored website if everything has gone as expected.

Its is good to try it out yourself instead of relying on your hosting provider for assistance. You might go wrong a few times, but each time if you rectify your mistakes, you can surely be able to easily get your fantastico restored in future. If you still face issues with that, you can always get in touch with you affordable web hosting provider for help with resolving Fantastico issues.

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Log file is the file that holds every information of all the files which were accessed. This helps the server administrators to identify and troubleshoot the errors.

Below are some of the log files:

Apache web server

/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com

MySQL database server

/var/lib/mysql/server.hostname.com.err

Exim mail server

/var/log/exim_mainlog
/var/log/exim_paniclog
/var/log/exim_rejectlog

Courier-IMAP

/var/log/maillog

cPanel control panel

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log

FTP server

/var/log/messages
/var/log/xferlog

System logs

/var/log/messages
/var/log/boot.log
/var/log/cron
/var/log/dmesg

Security logs

/var/log/secure
/var/log/messages

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NOTE: These are the logs that one can find if you have a dedicated server hosting server, for most other affordable web hosting packages, you wouldn’t get the required permissions of the server

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