1. choose advance option 'yes' and send email for login info to 'no' in manual installation. 2. Install with sample data 3. select Timezone America/New_York 4. (Not created anymore from 2.0) We need to set the default mail option to "mail" instead of "smtp" To do that change the following line in cmssimple.sql: ('CMSMailer_mapi_pref_mailer', 'smtp', NULL, NULL) to ('CMSMailer_mapi_pref_mailer', 'mail', NULL, NULL) and add the following inserts in siteprefs table and also increase the auto increament: ('mail_is_set', '1', NULL, NULL), ('CMSMailer_mapi_pref_charset', 'utf-8', NULL, NULL) 5. Select "MySQLi" for database. 6. delete config.php and empty tmp/cache and tmp/templates_c directory (except index.html) and then make zip. 7. add following line AS IT IS in 'userprefs' table (1, 'default_cms_language', '[[language]]', NULL) and add following line in 'siteprefs' table ('frontendlang', '[[language]]', NULL, NULL); 8. Upgrade is not possible to 2.0 since there is no upgrade utility. Please check for the same in the next version. 9. In every update change cmsms-2.1.2-install.php in install.xml 10. Select all languages in manual installation. 11. PHP REQUIREMENT LINK: https://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/installation/requirements#technical-requirements 12. Take sql dump on login page.