Extracting .tar.gz

[resellerlogic]

Is there a way to extract a .tar.gz file via ftp?

 

[ebetz]

Why not using SSH?or your web comtrol panel.

 

[James-A]

Yep, that's right SSH or control panel is the only option to extract a .tar.gz file you can't use FTP for this purpose.

 

[resellerlogic]

How would you do it via the control panel?

 

[James-A]

Control panel (cpanel) => File Manger => public_html => File name => Select option extract file.

 

[NuPagady]

There's also another way.
Make a php script:

<?
system("tar -zxvf [b]yourfile.tar.gz[/b]");
?>

And run it.
It will extract your .tar.gz (unless your host has dissabled system() command in php configuration).

 

[gauravmm]

If your host has disaabled system, you can use the zlib library and extract your file using a php script.

 

[Camron]

Using ssh,

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz