RE: Moving a site

You can do that if it Is a unix machine using telnet.  You would tar it
then untar it.  

Here is some info on tar and how to use it:

Use the tar command
tar stands for "tape archiving" used to combine two or more files for
storage or distribution.

To combine multiple files and/or directories into a single file, use the
following command: 
tar -cvf myfile.tar file1 file2

Replace file1 and file2 with the files and/or directories you want to
combine.
Replace myfile.tar with the name that you wish but keep the .tar
extension.


If you don't use the f directive, tar assumes you really do want to
create a "tape archive" instead of joining up a number of files.
The v directive tells tar to be "verbose" and report all files as they
are added.


The reverse - (UNTAR)

To separate an archive created by tar into separate files do the
following 

tar -xvf myfile.tar

You can use gzip in conjunction with tar to create compressed archives.
You can create a compressed archive with the following command: 

tar -cvf - file1 file2 | gzip > myfile.tar.gz

Note: If gzip isn't available on your system, use the Unix compress
command instead.
Replace gzip with compress and change the .gz extension to .Z (compress
looks specifically for an uppercase Z).

To separate a gzipped tar archive, do the following 

gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

To separate a tar archive compressed with the Unix compress command,
replace gunzip with uncompress.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:22 AM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc: mbitton(at)mibdevelopment.com
Subject: RE: Moving a site


You would probably need direct access to the host machine.  I don't
think FTP is capable of anything like this, but if you can befriend the
administrator of the server, you might could send the zip file to
him/her to unzip into your folder.

The first personal page I ever built (back in '95) was hosted by an ISP
that required that you send your pages to them in a zip.  They then
placed the files on the server for you, and only after I sent them
several updates did they finally start letting users have FTP access to
their Web accounts.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael I. Bitton [mailto:mbitton(at)mibdevelopment.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:06 PM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: Moving a site

I have to move a web site from one server to another.  Is there a way, 
using FTP, to place all files on the old server into a Zip file and then

just upload that one file to the new server to be unzipped there?

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