{"id":4020,"date":"2025-10-29T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/unzip-files-in-cpanel-file-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:54","slug":"unzip-files-in-cpanel-file-manager","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/unzip-files-in-cpanel-file-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Unzip Files in cPanel File Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use cPanel File Manager to extract uploaded archive files, such as <code>.zip<\/code> files.<\/p>\n<p>This is useful if you have uploaded a compressed website folder and want to unpack it on the hosting account.<\/p>\n<p>To unzip a file:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the 4UHosting client area at https:\/\/clients.4uhosting.co.uk.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>My Services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the hosting service and select <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Login to cPanel<\/strong> from the left side.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>File Manager<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Browse to the folder containing the archive file.<\/li>\n<li>Select the file you want to unzip.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Extract<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm where the files should be extracted.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Extract Files<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Check the extracted files afterwards to make sure they are in the correct folder.<\/p>\n<p>If you are extracting website files, make sure they are placed in the correct document root, such as <code>public_html<\/code> for the main website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use cPanel File Manager to extract uploaded archive files, such as .zip files. This is useful if you have uploaded a compressed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[17],"class_list":["post-4020","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-cpanel-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4020\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}