Question for hostgator resellers about zip files

[amartins]

Hello,

I am thinking of getting a reseller acount but need to find a workaround for the lack of telnet/ssh. Can any of you tell me if u can decompress zip (or gzip) files FTP'd to the server through cPanel's file manager? From what I read in cpanels forums it depends on if (or not) the appropriate RPMs were installed on the server.

[GatorBrent]

We never heard of someone being able to do that from cpanels file manager. Are you sure? Just got done checking in file manager and didn't see that option anywhere.

Afraid there is no way to do what your asking other then via shell.

Cpanel does have a backup / restore feature which allows you to do this, but it's more for only the backups you've done on the server. It woudln't work with what you want to do.

[amartins]

Hi,

I may be thinking in a GUI mindset but from some threads on cpanels support forums I assume that if there is a filetype association then in filemanager we could execute (extract) files from a zip

for example:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....p+file+manager

Before asking i tried to upload a zip to the cpanel demo site but uploads are not activated so i could not check for sure

[GatorBrent]

I just uploaded a zip to the file manager and could not find anyway to unzip it. Asked a few other hosts we are always in communication with and they didn't believe cpanel had it either.

[amartins]

Thanks,

I'll tell u what cPanel support says if anything at all.

Antonio.

Edit: Looks as If it can be donw a module needs to be installed in WHM

http://cpaneldemo.cpanel.net:2082/fr...les/index.html


(login and password: cpdemo)

You'll notice a bunch of gzips (at the bottom of the listing) if you click
on the filename (not the icon) you will notice that the options for that file (in the right frame) among others an option called "EXTRACT FILE CONTENTS" ) I assume it works for ZIP archives too but either way is good.

Or instead of all that u can just copy&paste the link below.

http://cpaneldemo.cpanel.net:2082/fr..._cpdemo.tar.gz