Extract Zip archive file with cPanel

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 field as it is if you want to extract the files to the same directory of the Zip archive file.
8. Click the “Extract File(s)” button.

That’s it, you can now delete the archive (.zip) file.

Now, if the extracted files go into a folder such as the case if you had “wordpress.zip” file extracted to a folder called “wordpress”, do the following to take the files that are inside the “wordpress” directory out to the higher level directory:

1. Double click the “wordpress” directory to enter it.
2. Press the “Select all” button.
3. Then click the “Move File” button.
4. You will be prompted to specify the destination path, simply delete the “wordpress” word until you reach the slash “/” character.
5. Then click the “Move File(s)” button.
6. Then click the “Up One level” button to get back to the higher level directory. You will see your moved files and also the empty “wordpress” directory. Since the empty wordpress directory is no longer needed, you can now delete it.

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