If you have a website in a ZIP/TAR archive, you can upload and extract it directly in Plesk File Manager. This is often faster than uploading thousands of small files over FTP.
Supported archive formats
In modern Plesk versions, File Manager can extract common formats such as ZIP, RAR, TAR, TGZ, and TAR.GZ.
1) Upload the archive to your website folder
- Log in to Plesk from My.GARMTECH.
- Open Files (File Manager).
- Open your document root (most websites use httpdocs).
- Click Upload and select your archive file (for example
site.zip).
2) Extract the archive
- Select the uploaded archive in File Manager.
- Click Extract Files.
- Choose the extraction directory (usually the current folder).
- If you are replacing an existing website, enable Replace existing files (if shown) and confirm.
3) Verify the website structure
- For a standard website, the main files should be inside httpdocs.
- For WordPress, you should see folders like
wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes and the file wp-config.php.
- Remove the archive file after extraction to save disk space.
Common mistakes
- Double nesting: after extraction you get
httpdocs/site/httpdocs/.... Fix it by moving the website files one level up into httpdocs.
- Wrong folder: uploading to the domain root, but the website actually needs to be inside a subfolder (or vice versa). Make sure the domain document root matches where you uploaded the files.
Alternative: extract locally and upload with FTP-SSL
If File Manager extraction is not available for your archive type, extract it on your computer and upload the files via FTP‑SSL (FTPS).
