Most commonly, we prefer to use open source scripts because it is free, however, if we cannot install it correctly, we will spend too much time troubleshooting it.
Well, this tutorial does not apply to just free scripts, it applies to all scripts installation especially when some files are encoded.
Here are some insights, whenever we purchase scripts or download them off the Internet, usually these files are all in .zip, tar.gz format. Also, we normally unzip them on our local machines and then upload them with our file browser. Do you know that by doing so may change the content of your files? Not because you have edited the content but you might have uploaded the files in a wrong file encoding using a wrong transfer mode. One would have to be mindful that there are more than one transfer mode when using FTP software, namely ASCII and Binary. If you upload the file with the wrong format, things will become unreadable and it will be very frustrating.
So here is the correct method:
- Download your Zip file (.zip, .tar.gz) from the website
Note: Do not unzip them locally - Upload them directly to your hosting account using File Manager or FTP
- Login to your control panel, click on File Manager
- Locate your uploaded file
- Click on the Filename
- From the top menu bar, click on Extract
Edit your configuration file and you are all ready.
All file encoding are unchanged leaving you with error free file uploads.
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