Installing and upgrading help

I solved this simply by asking my hosting service.  They knew about the problem.  After you use Fantastico, you need to change some files.  Here is my vendor's  solution:

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Due to servers running via suPHP, you will receive a 500 internal server error initially. You would need to log into Cpanel, click on File Manager, then on the folder icon next to public_html, then on the folder icon next to the folder where you installed Moodle.

Now, click on the file named .htaccess there (not the icon but the file's name). In the upper right, click on the Edit link, and remove the following lines:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc 1
php_flag magic_quotes_runtime 0
php_flag file_uploads 1
php_flag short_open_tag 1
php_flag session.auto_start 0
php_flag session.bug_compat_warn 0

Create a file in that folder called php.ini and add these lines:

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/username/public_html/moodles

magic_quotes_gpc 1
magic_quotes_runtime 0
file_uploads 1
short_open_tag 1
session.auto_start 0
session.bug_compat_warn 0