Title: Corrupt installer.php ?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Corrupt installer.php ?

 *  Resolved [jahrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahrl/)
 * (@jahrl)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/)
 * Hi
    I use the latest version of Duplicator (0.5.4) and when I download the installer
   file via _any_ browser I get rubbish like this:
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/je3jry7n4mg5zfc/installer.txt](https://www.dropbox.com/s/je3jry7n4mg5zfc/installer.txt)
 * Any idea on what this is and why? I have tried a couple of times to create new
   packages but same result every time.
 * I have charset set to:
 *     ```
       /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
       define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   
       /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
       define('DB_COLLATE', '');
       ```
   
 * Plz advise
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/#post-4994759)
 * Hey [@jahrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahrl/),
 * Can you check the wp-snapshots folder from the WP root and see if the file is
   corrupt there, that is the location where its stored.
 * Thanks~
 *  Thread Starter [jahrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahrl/)
 * (@jahrl)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/#post-4994773)
 * Look fine! I’ll use that
 * Should I worry about the Archive (.zip) file?
 *  Thread Starter [jahrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahrl/)
 * (@jahrl)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/#post-4994774)
 * It worked 🙂
 * thnx
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/#post-4994793)
 * The zip file should be fine. The issue might be that the web server is trying
   to change the mime type when you try to download it from the server. Your server
   admin might be able to help solve the issue so that it won’t convert the installer.
   php into a binary format when you try and download it from the user interface…

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-installerphp-1/#post-4994793)
 * Status: resolved