Problem

[shw]

I have a TCH account, but though it is a very good service there is a big problem. TCH provides neither SSH nor Fantastico. This is a problem for us because we need to install a large program in many sub-directories. Sending this up FTP over and over will take forever and a day.

 

My questions are therefore:

 

1. Do you provide SSH access for dedicated servers?

2. Are there any plans to include Fantastico?

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums.

 

1. SSH is disabled on shared servers. SSH would be available to you on a dedicated server.

 

2. At this time Fantastico is not provided. Not to say it won't be in the future.

Edited December 7, 2004 by TCH-Bruce

[shw]

Mmmm... I should have done my homework more carefully. I can do without one or the other, but life with neither is going to be difficult.

 

I can understand why you have taken away SSH, but I think you need to replace it with another alternative, e.g. Fantastico.

[AlanV]

Send it once and copy it over and over

Cpanel's file manager has a copy folder function, doesn't it?

[shw]

Ah... I'll have a look for that. That would do nicely!

[TCH-Dick]

cpanels file manager will do pretty much anything you can do with SSH.

[shw]

I thank AlanV for pointing me in the right direction. The copy directory command does indeed do the job. Problem more or less resolved.

 

On reading Mike's comment I hopefully went up and tried to unpack a tarball. But as far as I can see file manager won't do that. If there is some way to work with tar files other than SSH I would REALLY appreciate the knowledge.

 

I would prefer to have Fantastico available since it sets up the database for you, and even e-mails you all the information. But I can live without it. My main concern was hours of ftp uploads, but the copy directory command deals with that.

 

I thank everyone for the useful information and advice.

[AlanV]

Cpanel's file manager can deal with ZIP files, but not tar archives...

 

If you need to work with an archived file, then unpack it later, you should unpack it, zip it up, and upload the zip.

[TCH-Dick]

Cpanel's file manager can deal with ZIP files, but not tar archives...

 

If you need to work with an archived file, then unpack it later, you should unpack it, zip it up, and upload the zip.

Actually it will, you just need to rename the file.

It will not extract

Acrhive.tar

or

Acrhive.tar.tar

but if you change the name to

Acrhive.tar.gz

then cPanel will unpack it.

[shw]

Aha, another good workaround from Alan.

 

The original problems are still there, but are diminishing.

 

Thanks

[AlanV]

Cpanel's file manager can deal with ZIP files, but not tar archives...

 

If you need to work with an archived file, then unpack it later, you should unpack it, zip it up, and upload the zip.

Actually it will, you just need to rename the file.

It will not extract

Acrhive.tar

or

Acrhive.tar.tar

but if you change the name to

Acrhive.tar.gz

then cPanel will unpack it.

Ah, I didn't know that.

Thanks That's useful.

[shw]

Well here is the great benefit of these forums...

 

I had already tried to unpack the tar file: MamboV4.5-Stable-1.0.9.tar.gz but my desktop just tried to download it, so I presumed it couldn't be done.

 

Having read Dick's assurance that the file manager would unpack tar.gz files I got out the laptop (default browser Firefox ) and tried again.

 

Lo and behold, it worked!

 

Since I can now unpack tar archives without SSH I am a much happier man. (Though I would still like Fantastico as well!).