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Just setting up my new web host and play around with the website builder under Fantastico - Soholaunch. Soholaunch is an online script for user to create or modify web page online. By using GUI editing, it is suitable for beginner who knows nothing of a html code. But if you can do more than a html editing, then I suggest to go for advance content management system - Joomla or Drupal. Why? Compare with Joomla or Drupal, Soholaunch is not a fully open-source script that you’ll need to pay for more web template, plugins or extension to upgrade it to Pro version. Anyway, this post is to share the freak fix of Soholaunch on how to uninstall Soholaunch and solve the pinEdit.php not found issue.

First, I suggest install Soholaunch via Fantastico so that you’ll get rid of the uninstall nightmare. If it is not found in your server, you may install it manually but download an installer file from the website and strongly suggest install it in a folder of your root dir. e.g: /www/page/ .Assume you already create your SQL Database for Soholaunch, installation is fast and easy, setting up admin login and start to play around with it. It start with a website builder wizard by guide you step by step from choosing a template to page editing. When it comes to page editing, I got the message as below (assume my site is www.domain-name.com):

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /sohoadmin/program/modules/editor/pinEdit.php could not be found on this server.

Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.domain-name.com Port 80

I’ve play around and test everything, it was running find but when try to edit the web page the error occur. The pinEdit.php is an editing script, it’ll run but issue the whole URL:
http://www.domain-name.com/page/sohoadmin/program/modules/editor/pinEdit.php

So, soholaunch does have a forum, however by digging down to the end and I still can’t find any solution. Lastly, Google has save the day and it just a simple workout to solve it:

1.) Create a htaccess file with Notepad.
2.) Put this line in:

SecFilterEngine Off

3.) Save and FTP to the program root. (/www/page)
4.) rename htaccess to .htaccess with FTP client.
Ha, I’m able to editing my page now!

How to uninstall Soholaunch manually
Uninstall Soholaunch from Fantastico is easier than manually delete from your server. First, I drop all the Soholaunch’s SQL database and try to delete all the folder with FTP client. Because the script has been set with owner permission, I can’t delete it with FTP and getting a permission denied or folder are not empty, task cannot be perform. However, an attempt to delete all the folder with cPanel’s File Manager Fail! Lastly, to uninstall Soholaunch completely from your server is done by delete the upper level folder - the /www/page . Go to File Manager, click www folder icon, click on the page word, click delete this folder then click the trash can and trash it link. The page folder will be dump into .trash folder.

Next, go to Disk Space Usage and click Clear File Usage Cache. Go back to File Manager and the page folder are not longer exist but I strongly suggest you issue a ticket to your host’s support to double check or ask them to delete it for you.