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1. Bram P
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hello,

   I have a problem with the new version of wordpress. When I upload it to the server it all works fine, but when I try to wxtract it it doesn't work. I get this error:

   Archive: /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip
   End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
   the last disk(s) of this archive.
   unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip or
   /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip.zip, and cannot find /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip.ZIP, period.

   What can I do against this? It's not a fault of the host since I can extract other things and since I work at that host I would also know if there was an extraction problem on the whole server.

   best regards,
   Bram P

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   what can I do against this?

   can you unzip the same exact file on your local machine? yes/no ?

   Seems like that would be the logical thing to look at next, doesnt it?

   Have you tried another freshly downloaded zip? yes/no?

   If all fails, maybe you need to use ftp or scp or since you work there .. I assume you have shell access -- man wget && man tar

3. Bram P
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No, I can't unzip the same on the local machine.

   Yes I tried several times to download, upload and unzip a new directory. but no luck...

   Yes I can use shell access but this is a normal account like the clients have as well and I also want that the clients can just use it, so I rather solve the problem another way.

   Many thanks for your suggestions.

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Could you email me the zip you are trying to extract, please? my mail is whoo (---ta---) village-idiot.org

   i would like to try to duplicate your problem.

5. Bram P
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The email is send to you

6. Bram P
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I meant in cpanel not in normal pc...

   Do you (or anybody else) know what I can do?

7. verapowell
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello forum,

   I'm having the same issue of extracting a zipped theme file in cpanel. I've tried the above possible solutions with still no success.

   I don't know if a newer version of wordpress is the cause, but this is the ERROR message.

   Archive: /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip
   End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
   the last disk(s) of this archive.
   unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip or
   /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip.zip, and cannot find /home/user/public_html/blog/wordpress-2.7.zip.ZIP, period.

   Also, automatic wp-admin upload says UNPACKING THE PACKAGE.

   Has anyone found a solution yet? I would very much appreciate hearing a resolution.

   Thanks in advance.

   G'day

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