1)in manual installation set the path of the logs and upload_area directories in config.inc.php as : $tlCfg->log_path = '[[softpath]]/logs/'; $g_repositoryPath = '[[softpath]]/upload_area/'; 2)use same root user database credentials for (Define database User for Testlink access:) 3)Take database dump after logging in with default username and password (i.e admin and admin ) and setting First Name ,Last Name ,Email ,password from admin panel 4)Remove inserts from [[dbprefix]]events, [[dbprefix]]nodes_hierarchy, [[dbprefix]]testprojects and [[dbprefix]]transactions tables and change auto-increment. 5) Keep $tlCfg->config_check_warning_mode = 'SILENT'; 6) Since 1.9.16 make manual installation on Whm1144 server where mysqlnd is enabled. 7) Delete DEFINER=`test835`@`localhost` from SQL. 8) REQUIREMENTS LINK : https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS/testlink-code/tree/testlink_1_9_20_fixed#3-system-requirements---server 9) "_" Restriction of Dbprefix Removed since 1.9.19 10) We use PHP 7.2 as mentioned in the requirements link. Since the script throws syntax error on PHP 5.5 to 7.0.