Unzipping on the server?

[oddcarl]

Wondering if the Serendipity zip file can be uploaded to the server and then unzipped using that cpanel feature? That would be great because Serendipity program has gotten large.

Thanks..oddcarl

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

If cpanel can unzip a file, sure, it should work without a problem

Regards,
Garvin

[oddcarl]

OK, thanks Garvin, I'll try it. I know Gallery2 will work using their pre-installer but I don't know if that is something special they made up.

Thanks..oddcarl

[judebert]

I just write a php script that calls system("unzip myfile.zip"); to install the newest release.

Of course, I delete it immediately, so nobody else can do the same.

[stm999999999]

but, the zip has a folder inside (e.g. serendipity-nightly). How do you extract the files without these folder?

[judebert]

Either I repack it with the appropriate directory name on a local computer, or I do something like:

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// Extract into temporary directory
system("unzip -d /tmp myfile.zip");
// Copy to my blog
system("cp -R /tmp/serendipity/* /htdocs/blog");
// Remove the tmp file
system("rm -rf /tmp/serendipity");

[oddcarl]

Thanks for the replies all. One question remains, when it comes time to upgrade, can I do it via uploading the new zipfile? not sure exactly how to upgrade with this method.

Thanks..oddcarl

[stm999999999]

every update is just a "copy all files of the archive to the webspace" - your config_local.inc.php should be untouched, because this should not be in the archives.

[judebert]

As stm9x9 says, you've got to copy all the files. You can either:

1. download the archive to a local machine, unarchive it locally, and upload the files with an FTP client
2. upload the archive to the remote machine and use a custom PHP script to unarchive it

If you choose to unarchive on the remote machine, you either need to modify the archive to match your directory, or write the script to copy files from the archive directory (usually serendipity/) to your blog directory.

[stm999999999]

Either I repack it with the appropriate directory name on a local computer, or I do something like:

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// Extract into temporary directory
system("unzip -d /tmp myfile.zip");

Do you have an idea, what to do if the hoster does not allow "system", "passthrough" etc? Is there a php-variante for this all?

[williamts99]

If you can get SSH access to your host you can use that to transfer, rename, decompress the zip file, and rename if you must. You also might want to look into using the wget command that way you can download the zip from the hosting server directly to your server. That saves you a ton of time as there is nothing faster then server to server transfers.

It takes me about 3 seconds to download the zip file by using the command:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/php- ... p?download
^that is all one line
then another 3 seconds to unzip using
unzip serendipity-1.1.2.zip
which will unzip all of the files into the serendipity/ directory and if the files exist it will ask if you want to overwrite and give you the option of yes/no/All/None/Rename

That is about it, and of course this could all be automated.

Edit: I figured I would post a very simple php script that would do this all automatically, pretty crude without any options, buttons, variables etc, but it will get the job done for you automatically, s9y will be extracted to the serendipity/ directory where ever you put the script and will overwrite any files that exist in the serendipity directory. Copy and paste it into a file named install.php or whatever then upload to desired directory and run by visiting the page.

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<?php
// This PHP command will download the ZIP file
system('wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/php-blog/serendipity-1.1.2.zip?download');
// Then this PHP command will unzip the downloaded files while overwriting exisiting files
system('unzip -o serendipity-1.1.2.zip');
// And finally this PHP command will remove the downloaded zip file
system('rm serendipity-1.1.2.zip');
?>

[judebert]

Do you have an idea, what to do if the hoster does not allow "system", "passthrough" etc? Is there a php-variante for this all?

PHP has some zip functions, but I don't know how to use them, I'm afraid. It looks like they're cooking up something really nice, but it's only in CM right now.