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thank you ghia,
thank you sarahmx,
I have not been as lucky as sarahmx. I tried to install without the protector fix (which I had interpreted as 'overwrite' mainfile.dist.php, so I renamed it to mainfile.dist.php after copying from extras).
Still no luck... in fact I discovered something even stranger;
I can get to Step#7 screen now, but I bump into a blank page at Step#8 (error 500). So I examined the mainfile.php and found that no values were written to it. (and everything is writable)
So I added the values I wanted to the mainfile.dist.php and that got me through Step#7 to Step#8, but the wizard is now complaining that it cant write the avatar to the db.
This is all very puzzling as I have other XOOPS sites running on the same server (including one running 2.30), and it seems pretty obvious what permissions are needed where.
excuse my brain fart, but help!
P.S. for ghia
"(In general Apache is easier and runs also on Windows eg XAMPP)"
May be true, but I couldn't easily setup multiple sites, and not all my webs are XOOPS/PHP, hence IIS, which allows for all the flavours I do use.)
