PHPlist is a mailing distribution application that is available with your Web Hosting Hub account. It can be automatically installed through Fantastico in your cPanel and the files can be modified through the cPanel File Manager. This article is the first in our series of tutorials that will walk you through installing and properly configuring PHPlist for your site.

Installation in Fantastico

First, you will need to install PHPlist through Fantastico, which can be found in your cPanel in the Software/Services section.  Below are step by step instructions for installing PHPlist:

1. Log into your CPanel
2. Before installing PHPlist, you will first want to create an email account for handling bounce back emails (emails you send out that can't be delivered). For our example, we created This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3. Access the Fantastico section
4. Click PHPlist on the left
5. Click New Installation on the right
6. The following values should be set. Please note, there are additional details shown in the Fantastico screen, but for a basic installation, you leave those at their default values.

   "Install on domain"	Please choose the domain name to install the software on.
   "Install in directory"	This will be the folder where PHPlist is installed into. The directory should NOT already exist, Fantastico will create it for you. For this example, we will name ours newsletter.
   "Admin access data"	Create a username and password. For security, it's recommended to use something other than admin which is a common default.
   "Base configuration / Admin e-mail"	Change this to your email address. This does not have to be the same address you created above in Step 2.
   "E-mail account username"	Enter the full email address you created in Step 2. This email address is the address which will be used to send out messages and will receive bounce back notifications.
   "E-mail account password"	Enter the password for the above email address.
   "POP/SMTP server"	Change this to "localhost" (without the quotes).
   "Choose the method of Processing Message Queue"	Choose "Manual"

7. Click "Install PHPlist"
8. In the next screen, click "Finish Installation"
9. Fantastico will offer a text box for you to type in an email address to have the installation details sent to. It's a good idea to have that information easily accessible, so type in your email address and click the "Send E-Mail" button.

Now we can visit our PHP installation directory (in our example: whhsupport.com/newsletter) to see that PHPlist has been successfully installed: