Tip: Quick Way to Upload Your QuickStart Template

**GK User** Sun May 22, 2011 4:22 pm

Hi all

I'm not sure if anyone has posted anything similar but i recently discovered this great time saving process for uploading template QuickStarts.

Uploading any template via FTP takes ages (especially on my crappy connection here in Dubai!) so i I started doing a bit of digging and have come up with a great way to upload a QuickStart installation.

First of all I upload the Quickstart file still zipped, which is way quicker than thousands of files with FTP and then a file called unzip.php (see code below).

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?php system('unzip QS3.zip'); ?> </body> </html>

I then rename the QuickStart to QS3.zip (only cos it was the third attempt to get it working) and then simply browse to http://mynewsite.com/unzip.php and the template unzips in a matter of moments.

I believe that this unzip command does need to be supported on ur hosting but hey it works great for me.

The only other thing that u may have to do is CHMOD the two files to 644 if they aren't already. Don't forget to delete unzip.php cos if u accidentally hit it from ur browswer cache it will make u sad if u have done a load of work on ur site already!!

Hope it helps out.

Kev

**GK User** Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:01 pm

Awesome!!! works like a charm, thank you very much for the tip, it saved me a lot of time.

**GK User** Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:32 pm

Well if you are on cPanel there is almost no need for this (although it's a great tip), just choose to upload the zip file from cPanel's file manager and then click unzip

**GK User** Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:27 am

Hi

cPanel is extra per domain on my hosting which is a shame...

This does speed things up a lot tho... which is nice..

**GK User** Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:38 pm

I actually do have cPanel on my hosting account and it is free, but the only option i have is to upload files or zip them up, but i don't have an option to unzip them which is useless without this unzip.php script.

so thanks again PhoenixGB

**GK User** Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:07 am

You need to change your hosting . . . that's crap service

**GK User** Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:23 am

My hosting is www.iPage.com i really haven't had any problems with them, and the unzip.php script works great. Is there any other host you would recommend? why do you say my hosting is crap?

**GK User** Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:35 am

I agree, u can't make a judgement like that without knowing about cost, service levels etc.

Glad the unzip script worked for u, it certainly made my life easier!

**GK User** Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:19 am

Why do I need to know anything other than the fact you don't have cPanel and it's not configured properly with all the options you need . . . that's a prerequisite for good hosting nowadays . . . it could be free with no cPanel and still crap.