If you have worked with WordPress long enough, for one reason or another, you have probably started your site over from scratch. So you either log into your cpanel or ftp and totally delete everything. Now you go over to your Fantastico Menu and you are all ready to once again install WordPress onto your domain.

All is going fine, until you see this error message, “You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain.” Wait a minute, I just got done deleting all files, how can this be? So you go back into your ftp or cpanel and look again and sure enough, there is nothing there. What gives??

Don’t worry there is a simple fix. It appears the previous script was not properly removed. Here is what you need to do:

1. Log into your ftp or Cpanel file manager.
2. Go to your HOME directory and look for .fantasticodata
3. Next find this php file installed_in_root.php and delete it.

That should do the trick. You are now clear to re-install WordPress!