What a huge improvement!
I always lost files when I uploaded Joomla! via ftp then had to painstakingly determine which files were lost.
Never again.
Now I ftp the (much smaller) zip file of the full Joomla package to my main public directory.
Enable SSH through my Host control panel - a simple one click in my Security section and choose a password.
Launch Putty - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Login to the host with the SSH username and the password you set.
type the command cd public
type the command unzip Joomla_1.5.9-Stable-Full_Package.zip (in this case)
Voila - magic - no files lost - 2 minutes from start to finish.
Go through the online install and it all worked.
Okay then I tried to delete the installation folder with ftp and realized it wasn't empty
Back to SSH
rm -Rf installation/
Beautiful.
Who else has a time saving idea?
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By the way - this also eliminates the ascii upload issue!
ReplyDeleteCher
I just wanted to say I LOVE YOU!!!!!! UGH - Thank you SOO much! This has made my life SOO much easier.
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for the tip. I did the install but I get a problem with permissions. All files are owned by 1010. I have a virtual dedicated server from godaddy. What is the command to transfer the ownership to my regular user? Now I cant use ftp or install mods.
ReplyDeleteThank you in advance,
Miranda
Hey thanks for this!
ReplyDeleteThe server I used had no support for zip, so I used a tar.gz file instead. It extracted in about two seconds with this command: tar zxvf joomla.tar.gz