Unzip the zip file. The resulting extracted folder should be named fuelphp-1.8 or something similar.
Copy the folder named fuel from fuelphp-1.8 and paste it in your home directory (not public_html, should be named with your EID). This will be our frameworks base folder.
Make a folder named ct310 inside your local_html folder.
Copy all contents of fuelphp-1.8/public to your ct310 folder.
Set permissions to ct310 and the fuel base folder to 755.
Using chmod with the -R flag will apply permissions recursively to all contained files and folders
Open the file named index.php that currently resides in your local_html/ct310.
Inside the file, replace all occurrences of __DIR__.'/../fuel/ to __DIR__.'/../../fuel/.
There should be 3 occurrences in total
Hit http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~/[EID]/ct310 in your web browser. The framework homepage should now open successfully and you should see something like this: