My question in Reply 37, Question 3, about adding an alternative script was answered with:
"That probably has to do with the server configuration. The webinstall script retrieves a file from our servers; if your server disallows this, the script cannot be used."
but that didn't speak to my question, which again, was:
"...what about an alternate script being made for those of us who cannot ever seem to get traditional webinstall to download files? This alternate script (perhaps called something like insiteinstall.php) might depend on the files being uploaded by us with our own ftp program (perhaps the original downloaded zip) and then the insiteinstall.php could tuck all the files into their right places as needed (this bypasses the upload problem and it might work as an alternative for those few of us who seem to have webhost upload issues, if that's why we have problems)."
The virtue of the insiteinstall.php would be NO upload, just a manipulation of files into the correct folders, which would ease the burden of adm's in upgrades and installs both. Again, this would only be used by those who cannot seem, for whatever reason, to get the standard webinstall script to work BECAUSE it is trying to upload files over the web.
Again, the insiteinstall.php idea is that WE upload with our ftp program ALL the files, which we can already do successfully, and this would include the zip and the insiteinstall script.
Again, I bring this up here instead of in a separate webinstall thread to speak to the remark that Daydreamer made in Reply 32 that "Smf 2.0 RC2 need large upgrade, I'm afraid.", and scripts are intended to help ease that burden for us adm's I believe, and doing a multiple of upgrades on a multiple of forums is quite a burden for us.
So, how about an alternative that has US doing the uploading of the zip (instead of a script) and the insiteinstasll script doing just the placing of files into the right locations after WE upload the zip file ourselves.
I hope I'm making it clear that in this scenario this "special edition" install script does NOT upload anything (I know I've said it many times in this post).