Kickstart is now a PHAR archive
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Kickstart is a PHAR archive. It consists of a short PHP script to make it
executable, followed by compressed binary data containing the PHP, JavaScript,
and CSS files used by Kickstart. The compressed data is extracted automatically
at runtime.

Please read https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-kickstart-documentation/ksarchitecture.html
for more information and further advice.

Uploading Kickstart
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If you are on Windows and using FTP or FTPS to upload Kickstart to your site,
please make sure that you set TRANSFER MODE to BINARY.

If you are getting HTTP 500 errors when trying to run Kickstart it most likely
means that you forgot to do that.

Alternatively, you can use SFTP to upload Kickstart. SFTP always transfers files
in binary transfer mode; it's the only transfer mode it supports.