tenaki

I am following the instructions to compress an entire directory using ssh but I get an error Cannot open: Permission denied

GZIP Compression

Gzip allows you to upload or download your entire site in the form of a compressed .tar.gz file.

If you wanted to compress your entire sites html folder into a single file to download you can use the following commands:

cd /var/www/

tar -czf html.tar.gz html

Now your entire html folder will be placed into an archive called html.tar.gz in your /var/www/ folder, so you can FTP in and download that file.


I am logging in using putty then typing in the following

-bash-3.00$ cd /var/www/

-bash-3.00$ tar -czf html.tar.gz html

What am I doing wrong

MrBen

You don't have permissions to create files or folders in /var/www/

Try specifying an alternate location for the file e.g. /home/<site admin username>/html.tar.gz

This will create the file in the site admin's home directory.

Ben

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tenaki

Its seems to create the gzip file ok its just empty though