Un-zip and upload the files to your server.
They may be in a sub-folder or the root.

1. Open www.yourdomain.com/install in your browser and you will see the start screen.
   
   
   Click install new store.
   
2. Page 2 in the install. Accept the defaults and continue.
   
   
   
   1. Your first error.
      
      Open your FTP program and go to your-store.com/includes/ and set the permissions at 777 or read write and execute all on the FOLDERS. Do the same for admin/includes/
      
      Note: In these 2 cases you are changing the permissions on the folders. Normally if a path shows a file name then you are to change the file's permission.
      In this case, the program generates the 2 configure.php files and although it is indicating that they need to be made writeable, there are no configure.php files. There are 2 configure_dist.php files but these are not the cause of the problem.
      In most ftp programs, right clicking on the file will bring up a menu.
      The command you want will be either, Change file Permissions or CHMOD, depending on your ftp program.
      Usually you can select and change multiple files in a folder in one command.
      
   2. More errors on the same page. Change the permissions on all these files and folders to 777.
      You will need to change them back to the proper settings later.
      I will give you the settings when you are done with the install.
      
      
   3. All done? Press "check Again"
      
      
3. Back to the step 2 page completion again. This time everything is green.
   
   
   
   

Press continue

4. Here we are on step 3. Now is the time to enter your Database server, your login, password and the name of the database.
   If you are on a shared server do not enable persistent connections, and use the Database, not the Files option in the Session Storage.
   
   
   
5. Before pressing continue, log in to your PHP MyAdmin and create your database.
   There is no need to enter anything in it. A blank database is sufficient.
   
   
   
   Once you have made the database click on continue in step 3 above.
   
6. If you have done everything in step 3 right you will get a "Success" screen.
   
   
   
7. Press continue above to import your database.
   
   
   
8. Step 5 needs you to enter the web address then the root directory's path, cookie path and yes or no to enable SSL connections.
   This screen appears already filled in for you. Accept the defaults.
   Do not enable SSL unless you have a secure certificate installed or your host offers a shared certificate.
   If you do so you will run into problems accessing the Admin.
   
   
   
9. Step 6 is nowhere to be found. The install goes to step 7 after step 5.
   Accept the defaults.
   
   
   
10. Step 8 is setting up the admin access. Enter First, Last names, admin email address and password. Continue.
    
    
    
11. This brings you to the last screen. It will list your user name and password.
    
    
    
12. When you go to to the admin login link, you will see a warning at the top to tell you to change the permissions on your /admin/includes/configure.php.
    Notice you are NOT told to do the same thing to /includes/configure.php and you have to make that secure as well. This warning has disappeared.
    
    
    
13. Now you have to go back in using ftp and reconfigure the permissions so the site is secure.
    Change configure.php in includes/ and in admin/includes to 444
    
    
    However, you will probably not be able to do this without an additional step.
    When I try to do this I get the following error.
    
    The only way I have found to fix this problem is to download the configure.php file in ASCII mode, delete the configure.php file on the server and upload the copy you just downloaded.
    When this is done the CHMOD confirmation is correct.
    
    
14. Here are the settings for the original files.
    admin/backups/ 755
    admin/images/graphs/ 755
    images/ 755
    images/banners/ 755
    debug/ 755
    debug/plugnpay_debug.txt 644
    debug/authnet_debug.txt 644
    debug/quickcommerce_debug.txt 644
    debug/.htaccess.1151281410 644
    debug/firepay_debug.txt 644
    debug/propay_debug.txt 644
    includes/key/ 755
    includes/languages/affiliate_french.php/ 644
    includes/languages/french.php/ 644
    includes/languages/german.php/ 644
    includes/languages/german/ 644
    includes/languages/tell_a_friend_article.php/ 644
    includes/languages/english/ 755
    includes/languages/english.php/ 644
    includes/languages/affiliate_english.php/ 644
    includes/languages/affiliate_espanol.php/ 644
    includes/languages/affiliate_german.php/ 644
    includes/languages/espanol/ 755
    includes/languages/espanol.php/ 755
    includes/languages/french/ 755
    tmp/ 755
    temp/ 755