Category Archives: Web Hosting

Copy File from Website to Website with a PHP Script

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 22, 2011

Sometimes you might need to copy a big file to your website. Usually, you would simply upload it with an FTP client, but when you have the file already on another website, it would be much faster to just copy the file directly from your another website straight to your website with a direct connection. As well, you might need to extract the file after it has been copied. I’ll consider an example where you have to copy the WordPress web software zip file to your website. The script here is written with PHP and runs on a Linux platform.… [Full Article]

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Extract Zip archive file with cPanel

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 22, 2011

It is much faster if you wanted to have a large number of files uploaded to your website by Zipping it first and then uploading it. And after that, unzipping the archive file on the server. If your web host uses cPanel, like HostGator, do the following steps to extract the Zip file:

  1. Access your cPanel.
  2. In the “Files” section, click “File Manager”.
  3. Select the directory where your Zip file is in.
  4. Click the “Go” button.
  5. Select the Zip archive file.
  6. Click the Extract button.
  7. You will be prompted to specify the destination path, specify the path or just keep the

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Secure Site Files Access with SFTP and HostGator

By Amer Kachmar | Published: October 6, 2010

If you own a web hosting account, it is very likely that you use FTP access to upload and download files for your website. FTP which stands for “File Transfer Protocol” is an insecure protocol by nature. The username and password are transferred in plain text! This means that they could be captured by others and gain access to your site.
It is highly recommended that you never use FTP and instead use the alternative secure protocol, the SFTP. SFTP stands for “Secure File Transfer Protocol”. More specifically SFTP is FTP using SSH. SFTP allows you to have a… [Full Article]

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