Install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites to Extract Zip Files and manage files and folders on Browser with smooth Ajax powered Mac OS X like interface. The basic problem most Rackspace Cloud Sites users faces is the problem to Extract Zip Files on SFTP. Except PHP, Perl etc. scripts the function is pathetic. We supplied another such script which basically does the wget function to download WordPress zip folder and extract it on Rackspace Cloud Sites. We noticed that, lot of visitors are searching such function for Joomla!, Magento etc. Instead of creating separate scripts its obviously great if we have a great software that can extract anything. This is the major reason to write this guide on how to Install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites to Extract Zip Files.
Install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites to Extract Zip Files : Preface
AjaXplorar is a cute light software powered by Ajax. Official website is :
1 | http://ajaxplorer.info |
Just hit the download to get the latest software. It is obvious that, to Install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites, you have suffer the pain of uploading unzipped files via SFTP. But this pain will reduce pain of multiple origin in future! Use WinSCP like SFTP software to upload all the files to the place you want to install AjaXplorer. The great feature of AjaXplorer is, its fully configurable and has plugins.
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Steps to install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites to Extract Zip Files
Unzip the folder on your desktop or any suitable place. Move all contents to your website root / sub folder root / sub directory root :

After the upload is complete, simply point to :
1 | http://yourdomain.com/ajaxplorer/ |
Where, yourdomain.com is your domain’s name and ajaxplorer is the name of the subfolder. There are hundreds of advantages of AjaXplorer, like it can support SFTP, use SSL etc. The interface is kind of “you want to lick it”. It can be made more faster on Rackspace Cloud, that is a separate story, just see this :

So you understood how to install AjaXplorer on Rackspace Cloud Sites, you can use the official website’s tweaks to make it more faster. On Mac Safari it completely matches with OS X’s GUI.
