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Regarding step 5, if you are doing this then delete the standard mainfile.dist.php, copy mainfile.dist.php.protector from /extras into your xoops_root folder and then rename it to mainfile.dist.php
Yeah, I know it sounds obvious but worth checking.....
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Also, make /cache and /templates_c writeable too (just in case).