1. While installation use this 'fud30_' as dbprefix 2. We configure .htaccess to remove the php_value and php_flag 3. take "_GLOBALS.php" dump after 2nd step that is "System setting and Directory path". 4. use this function for extract "fudforum_archive" file. create data_root,web_root folder and execute file function died(){ print_r(error_get_last()); } register_shutdown_function('died'); mkdir("data_root"); mkdir("web_root"); decompress_archive('./data_root/', './web_root/'); function decompress_archive($data_root, $web_root) { $clean = array('PHP_OPEN_TAG'=>''<%'); // CLI doesn't automatically change the CWD to the one the started script resides in. chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); /* Install from './fudforum_archive' file. */ $fp = fopen('./fudforum_archive', 'rb'); $checksum = fread($fp, 32); $tmp = fread($fp, 20000); fseek($fp, (ftell($fp) - 20000), SEEK_SET); if (strpos($tmp, 'RAW_PHP_OPEN_TAG') !== FALSE) { /* No compression. */ unset($clean['PHP_OPEN_TAG']); $clean['RAW_PHP_OPEN_TAG'] = '\nIf you've encountered this error it means that you've:

downloaded a corrupt 'fudforum_archive' file
uploaded the archive to your server in ASCII and not BINARY mode
your FTP Server/Decompression software/Operating System added un-needed cartrige return ('\r') characters to the archive, resulting in archive corruption.

\n"); } $pos = 0; do { $end = strpos($data, "\n", $pos+1); $meta_data = explode('//', substr($data, $pos, ($end-$pos))); $pos = $end; if (!isset($meta_data[3]) || $meta_data[3] == '/install') { continue; } if (!strncmp($meta_data[3], 'install/forum_data', 18)) { $path = $data_root . substr($meta_data[3], 18); } else if (!strncmp($meta_data[3], 'install/www_root', 16)) { $path = $web_root . substr($meta_data[3], 16); } else { continue; } $path .= '/'. $meta_data[1]; $path = str_replace('//', '/', $path); if (isset($meta_data[5])) { $file = substr($data, ($pos + 1), $meta_data[5]); if (md5($file) != $meta_data[4]) { exit('ERROR: file '. $meta_data[1] .' was not read properly from archive'); } if ($path == $web_root .'.htaccess' && @file_exists($path)) { define('old_htaccess', 1); continue; } if (defined('fud_debug')) echo "Extracting $path\n"; $fp = @fopen($path, 'wb'); if (!$fp) { if (basename($path) != '.htaccess') { exit('Couldn\'t open '. $path .' for write.'); } } // TODO: Good place for substitutions before we write the file. fwrite($fp, $file); fclose($fp); @chmod($path, 0644); } else { if (substr($path, -1) == '/') { $path = preg_replace('!/+$!', '', $path); } if (!__mkdir($path)) { exit('ERROR: failed creating directory '. $path); } } } while (($pos = strpos($data, "\n//", $pos)) !== false); } function __mkdir($dir) { $u = umask(0); if (@is_dir($dir)) { return 1; } else if (file_exists($dir)) { unlink($dir); } $ret = (mkdir($dir, 0755) || mkdir(dirname($dir, 0755))); umask($u); return $ret; } 5. use "decompress_archive" function of "install.php" to extract "fudforum_archive" file. 6. make datadir i.e data.zip from "data_root" folder of extracted "fudforum_archive". 7. make fud.zip from downloaded installer zip and "web_root" folder of extracted "fudforum_archive" (exclude .github folder from our zip). 8. for creating cache go to "Forum Consistency" and proceed also verify post values of curlcall in install.php and update 9. for creating template go to "Theme Manager" and click on "[ Rebuild all Themes ]" also verify post values of curlcall in install.php and update 10. http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php?title=FUDforum_3.0.9#Requirements or https://github.com/fudforum/FUDforum/releases/tag/v3.2.0 (check latest release notes) 11. Copy files which need not to be configured from {Manual Data Dir}/include/theme/default and keep files which need to be configured in {Our Package}/default