can anyone help, this is really important :(

Installing Protector in XOOPS 2.3.2
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We also highly recommend the installation of the PROTECTOR module which will bring additional security protection and logging capabilities to your site:

To install Protector module for the first time with a new installation of XOOPS 2.3.2, copy /extras/mainfile.dist.php.protector to /htdocs/mainfile.dist.php BEFORE installing XOOPS.


because it it said I should do that? unless, that line didn't mean I should have replaced the original mainfile.dist.php with the protector one.

Moreover, I tried installing without replacing the protector file and I still got the same problem.

Saving your system configuration

Could not copy the distribution file to mainfile.php


can someone help me out please?

I renamed the mainfile.dist.php to backup.mainfile.php and the mainfile.dist.php.protector was moved to htdocs and renamed to mainfile.dist.php

I then launched the installation procedure by loading the index.php file on the htdocs directory.

this is a clean instal. Is there a reason why this isn't working?