Newbie Q

[nicedomains]

Hi guys,

another newbie question from me :bah:

So I have bought a website and the previous owner transferred me the files in a .rar file. I thought .rar is similar to a zip file where I simply upload it to my file manager and extract. Well, no such luck. I have uploaded it but when I try to extract the files the program acts like it is trying to extract but after a long wait (over half hour) it still is not finished or has not extracted files from the .rar folder. Am I doing something wrong? missed a step?

Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this!

 

[Rich]

I've never tried extracting files while they're online, maybe a corrupt archive or rar extraction not supported. Have you tried to unrar client side than upload extracted content via FTP?

 

[nicedomains]

Rich, thanks for the response. I am trying to understand, bear with me. By "unrar client side" do you mean extract the files to my computer, then upload them one by one to my file manager? How would I do this, I can't seem to open a .rar file from my desktop.

Thanks for your patience

 

[OrangeNick]

Can you extract the files on your computer and than make a .zip or a .tar.gz out of it?

 

[Rich]

Unrar with RarZilla Free Unrar 2.53, Download for Windows (Freeware, Tool)
is a free windows rar tool, you may extract on desktop and bulk upload (select all folders in ftp and upload to directory)
or try OrangeNick's idea and zip up the extracted rar files, upload zip and try extracting from file manager, hope this helps.

 

[nicedomains]

Ok, unrared files, zipped them up, uploaded to my file manager in cpanel and then extracted files.. Now I go to the site and it's just a menu of files.. I click on the folder I extracted and get this page: MySQL Error (Powered by Mihalism Multi Host)


Thanks again guys, I feel I am really close and have already learned a bit today.. this mysql error is worrying me though. Are the files the guy sold me corrupted?

 

[Rich]

Is there any readme file or installation instructions that come with it? You need to setup a mysql database and add access, is there a .sql file in the website files?

 

[nicedomains]

Ok, yes the readme file is there. I read it, although it doesn't tell me more that what we have discussed here. It confirms I need a mysql database.

There is no .sql file in the ws files. Can I just set up a mysql database from my webhost?

 

[Rich]

So there's nothing in the readme that says "create table"?
or looks like this

`id` smallint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `position` varchar(25) NOT NULL default '',
  `code` text NOT NULL,

I'm not sure where to go from here, you need the table names Maybe contact the former owner and ask him about the database.

 

[nicedomains]

No, nothing about a table or any code in the readme file

I will be contacting the previous owner. I would have been having him help me thru this except he is hard to communicate with.

Rich, I can't thank you enough for your effort to help. Rep has been given. Wish me luck in trying to solve this problem. If anyone knows any other solutions I may be able to try please post.

 

[Rich]

Thank you for Rep. Best of luck to you, I hope everything gets sorted out.

 

[OrangeNick]

Is it a wordpress site??

 

[nicedomains]

Not wordpress. It's an image hosting site, all php.. Maybe that can clue us into the prob?

 

[OrangeNick]

Ok, problem is your not allowing user murk4_image to login from remote locations.

Set the grants for murk4_image in your mysql. Change permissions as:

    GRANT ALL
    ON *.*
    TO murk4_image@'%' identified by 'password';