This section covers extracting the agoracgi.tgz file to your hard drive once you have downloaded the file. The most recent copies are located in each support forum files section or on the download page located in the links to the left.

The purpose of extracting files you your computer's hard drive is so that you can edit individual files and/or extract the agoracgi.tar file from within the agoracgi.tgz file.

Once you've downloaded the agoracgi.tgz file to your hard drive, you will need to extract the files from the tarball (Unix compressed file) so that you can edit the individual files you need to change after the store is installed on your server. Some programs such as WinZip and WinRAR allow you to extract the agoracgi.tar file as well as the complete directory structure from the compressed file. If you don't have either one, we recommend you install one of them before proceeding. WinZip is $29 after the initial evaluation period and is the one we use at K-Factor Technologies, Inc.

To extract onto your computer (Windows users), find and double click on the agoracgi.tgz file. This should pull up the extraction software you use (WinZip or WinRAR for example). Both of the programs should allow you to extract a .tar file and you should experiment if you are not sure how that works. You can do that if you wish or if needed. But for the most part you need to extract the individual files so that you can edit the files such as the main pages, headers, footers, etc. If WinZip doesn't work on the .tgz file, then try WinRAR to extract the agoracgi.tar file first.

Extracted files will be within a directory called "store" if all went well. Once you have those files, you have those files extracted, you are ready to upload the agoracgi.tgz or agoracgi.tar file to your server and install the store on your server / hosting account. If you have TELNET or SSH access, use that method as it's much more reliable. If these types of access are not available on your server / hosting account, then use the web installation method.