<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Solution</span></p>
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<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">It is very common that most times, we prefer to use open source scripts because its free, however, if we cant install it correctly, we will spend alot of time troubleshooting.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Well, this tutorial does not apply to just free scripts, it applies to all scripts installation especially when some files are encoded.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Heres some insights, whenever we purchase scripts or download them off the Internet, many a times this files are all in .zip, tar.gz format. And we usually unzip them on our local machines and then upload them using our file browser. Do you know doing so many simply change the content of your files? Not because you have edited the content but you may have uploaded the files in a wrong file encoding using a wrong transfer mode. One would have to take note 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 turn out unreadable and it will be very frustrating.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">So heres the right way:</p>
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<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Download your Zip file (.zip, .tar.gz) from the website<br />Note: Do not unzip them locally</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Upload them directly to your hosting account using File Manager or FTP</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Login to your control panel, click on File Manager</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Locate your uploaded file</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Click on the Filename</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">From the top menu bar, click on Extract</li>
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<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Edit your configuration file and you are all set.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">All file encoding are unchanged leaving you with error free file uploads.</p>
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