1. Always check that albums/edit and albums/userpics and albums/* folder in zip is blank i.e only contains 'no_FTP-uploads_into_this_folder!.txt' and index.php 2. choose GD2 in Image package selection 3. We have added _update.php to auto update the installation. We have added the following line : define('SKIP_AUTHENTICATION', true); 4. PHP REQUIREMENT LINK: https://github.com/coppermine-gallery/cpg1.6.x/blob/develop/README.txt