Avoding SSH access : Untar, Gunzip, Unzip in FileManager

A most excellent addition indeed along with a FrontPage Admin link.
 
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Feature added, fine! But why it supports only tar.gz extraction?
Why .zip extraction support not added, while it's a commonly used format for Windows users?

PS: And when directory copying will be supported also?
 
ClayRabbit said:
Feature added, fine! But why it supports only tar.gz extraction?
Why .zip extraction support not added, while it's a commonly used format for Windows users?
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DirectAdmin uses standard *nix commands. To my knowledge there is no compatibility for .zip files on a unix machine without installing additional software.

I don't see it being added unless DA was able to add a compressor and decompressor utility in with the DA binary. Although I don't know if it would be worth it.
 
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jmstacey said:
I don't see it being added unless DA was able to add a compressor and decompressor utility in with the DA binary. Although I don't know if it would be worth it.
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DirectAdmin's customapache script installs zziplib.

Phi1.
 
To be really useful the filemanager should be able to uncompress all the aformentionned formats:
zip
tgz
tar.gz
bz2

Most customers will have zips
Most devs will use bz2

A lot of unix software or some backups are in tgz format.

Just make the extract page modular, detect what formats are available and support them.
 
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Tarballs, uncompression

To me this is a no brainer and we shouldn't have to ask for such an elementary feature. For this cause, I'll stick with hosting companies that thought situations such as this through enough to know how remedial the question is, and how remedial the solution should be.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Away with Direct Admin, hello hosting companies that use cPanel.
 
H-Sphere is owned by Comodo.

Do you suggest that DA ask Comodo if they'd license the file manager to them?

Jeff
 
what's the status?

Noticed that this thread about unzip started in 2004 and now still running but is unzip in or not? Read DannyGoh's post about the addition for the tar.

I vote for the unzip too.
 
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Maybe DA could include the H-Sphere File manager. It's one of the best there is.
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I just have to jump in here and say that I agree completely.

I also just happen to have an hsphere cluster and I would give the DA guys an account to play with.
 
Slight conflict of interest there ;)

As for zip in the filemanager, it's not too hard for me to add into DA. The only issue is that zip/unzip isn't as standard as tar is on linux boxes. I can always include a "zip.sh" install script if you want to have it. I'll keep it in mind when doing the next release.

John
 
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