Please read the readme file that is provided: II. Preparations & considerations 1. Unzip the zip file to your hard drive. You'll get these files: * upload/test.php * upload/install.php * upload/WCFSetup.tar.gz * License agreement.txt * Read me.txt Note: The file "WCFSetup.tar.gz" is also an archive. Never unzip that archive! 2. Simply upload the three files from the "upload" subdirectory with your FTP program to a subdirectory of your choice on your web space. Consider uploading the files to the directory, where you want your forum to be installed later. The installation assistant will then suggest you first to create a directory for the Community Framework (wcf) and later directly in the current directory for the products mentioned above. 3. To ensure your web space fullfils the system requirements, consider testing the PHP support first! All you need to do so is opening the file ("test.php") in your browser and see the results. E.g. "http://www.my-testserver.com/test.php" (replace "www.my-testserver.com" with the name of your server). If your server doesn't meet the system requirements, you may contact your web host to ask for some solution. For a Web server, please install the missing components. 4. For further installation, please keep your MySQL access data ready. You can get this in the customer area of your web host.