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The PowWeb OPS is packed with useful tools created for a an efficient website management. One of these tool is the Archive Gateway which lets users to compress and uncompress files directly on the server without using SSH or shell commands.

There are two main purpose of this tool. One is to uncompress or unarchive a compressed file. The other one is to compress or archive a certain file or directory. Archive gateway can process .gz, .tar, .tar.gz, .zip and .Z files. The tool can be accessed directly from the main page of the OPS.

For uncompression of files, one has to select the compressed file that he wants to unarchive from a drop-down menu. Archive Gateway automatically scans your account for any compressed file. It will then list all the compressed files into a dropdown menu where users can select the particular file that he wants to unarchive. There will be an option which let users to uncompress the file into a certain path or directory.

For compressing files, users will have to enter the path and filename of the file that they want to compress. There will be an option to retain original old file or to replace it with the new compressed file. There are two compression algorithms available, first one is GNU Gzip, the other one is the Unix compress.

For compressing a certain folder or directory, a user will have to select the folder that needs to be archived. Resulting compressed file suffix must be either .tar or .zip. This file can then be easily downloaded either using the File Manager or thru FTP.

There is also another useful compression tool that can be easily accessed on the File Manager. This will let users to compress selected files or folders without archiving the parent folder. This means that if you want compress certain files into your “htdocs” directory, you will not have to compress the entire htdocs directory or move the files to be archived into a separate directory for archiving. You just need to select the files and folders and then click on the “Archive as zip” button on the File Manager. The selected files and folders will now be archived into a zip file and saved into your home folder. The resulting file will be on a “username.zip” format where username is your control panel username.

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