How to open .zip or .tar files on the server side with plesk based vps

**st1905** · 08-04-2007, 03:40 AM

Ok first of all i`d like to thank jaguarpc for their support and simply the best service.

Plesk does not include an option to unzip tar or zip files on the server side which is not good for webmasters who has so many files to upload.

So what can you do?

Very simple indeed

go here http://www.net2ftp.com/index.php fill the ftp information then you are ready to extract zip or tar files on the server side.

Second option(My way and it is extremely secure)

Download the attached file

Upload the contents of file to a directory on your server (Make a directory that is hard to guess and forbid the access by robots.txt to search engines)

Go to http://yourdomain.tld/directory/

It`ll ask for a username and password for the first time.(You have to chmod 777 pass.php before you do this, after you set your password then chmod 644 pass.php)

now you are ready to extract files on the server side.

**joshb** · 08-06-2007, 12:03 PM

Wow, that seems like a lot of work. I know that not everyone is a command line junkie, but it's really easy to SSH in and zip or unzip the file.

Using the command line is just like any other skill. The more you use it, the more comfortable you get with it.

**st1905** · 08-07-2007, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by joshb

Wow, that seems like a lot of work. I know that not everyone is a command line junkie, but it's really easy to SSH in and zip or unzip the file.

Using the command line is just like any other skill. The more you use it, the more comfortable you get with it.

People dont like command line usually and in fact it is a very little work

**thisisit3** · 08-07-2007, 01:21 AM

doesn't get any easier than: "unzip file.zip"

**st1905** · 08-07-2007, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by thisisit3

doesn't get any easier than: "unzip file.zip"

You have to go to ssh, thats to much work

)))

**thisisit3** · 08-07-2007, 06:21 AM

You mean that you don't keep an ssh window open 24/7???

**Vin DSL** · 08-07-2007, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by thisisit3

You mean that you don't keep an ssh window open 24/7???

Heh!

I thought I was the only one that did that!

I send null SSH packets every 30 seconds to keep the connection alive...

**thisisit3** · 08-07-2007, 07:04 AM

i do the same here

if YOU want to be c00l and L33t like us, then edit your ssh configuration and add:

Code:

ServerAliveInterval 30

**st1905** · 08-07-2007, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by thisisit3

i do the same here

if YOU want to be c00l and L33t like us, then edit your ssh configuration and add:

Code:

ServerAliveInterval 30

I better learn more information about remote management since i`m not really good at these things

**jason** · 08-07-2007, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by Vin DSL

Heh!

I thought I was the only one that did that!

I send null SSH packets every 30 seconds to keep the connection alive...

You mean there's a reason to log out of SSH? I usually have three or four sessions open at a time. On to JPC, one to my dev server, one to my work web server, etc., etc.

--Jason

**thisisit3** · 08-07-2007, 08:18 AM

i'm thinking of building a console tool to monitor various aspects of the server and display them in a nifty way inside the ssh window.

like: 10 last IP's accessing the server, 5 last /var/log/message lines, memory/cpu/etc usage, exim status, apache status, last pop3/imap access user, cpanel logins, etc...

everything related to the hosting server and stats from the hosting control panel.

**joshb** · 08-07-2007, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by thisisit3

i'm thinking of building a console tool to monitor various aspects of the server and display them in a nifty way inside the ssh window.

like: 10 last IP's accessing the server, 5 last /var/log/message lines, memory/cpu/etc usage, exim status, apache status, last pop3/imap access user, cpanel logins, etc...

everything related to the hosting server and stats from the hosting control panel.

That would be very handy. I'd definitely use it.

**joshb** · 08-07-2007, 10:40 AM

I just realized that my SFTP tool of choice on Windows, WinSCP, will do remote tar/gzip and untar/gzip. It really doesn't get any easier than this. Just upload the .tar.gz file, right click on it, select Custom Commands -> Untar/GZip, and you're all set.

Granted, it doesn't do zipping/unzipping of regular .zip files, but it also allows you to execute remote commands. As thisisit3 remarked earlier, the command is just 'unzip file.zip'.

For anyone reading this who doesn't already know and love SFTP, it's FTP over an SSH connection. A GUI client will handle the SSH stuff in the background for you, so it just looks like a normal FTP program. However, it's secure, unlike FTP which sends your username/password in cleartext.

Find it at http://winscp.net.

**Vin DSL** · 08-07-2007, 10:49 AM

WinSCP WILL do .(un)ZIP .(un)BZ2 et cetera in a console window too, if you setup the custom commands for them.

The only problem running though the console is WinSCP will timeout if you're, say, ZIPing your whole website. For stuff like that, use a PuTTY CLI window (built-in)...