Cannot extract .tar.gz archive in bash

Question

I am in my /w dir and I saved the .tar.gz archive from the MediaWiki server like this:

$ cd /public_html/w 
$ wget releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz

But once I try to extract it:

$ tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz

It extract to one point and then it stops, I get an error: -bash: tar: cannot reach server

How to extract it?

EDIT:

tar --version:

tar (GNU tar) 1.23
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

file -zi mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz:

mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz: cannot open `mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz' (No such file or directory)

tar should never try to reach a server.. you have something funny going on there. — Mike, Dec 21 '14 at 13:45
Well what can I do to extract the file? I can't even delete it with `$ rm` :( — PowerUser, Dec 21 '14 at 13:51
type `file mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz` what does it show it is, what are the perms? — Doon, Dec 21 '14 at 13:54
Post output of `id; cd /public_html/w; pwd; ls -ld .; ls -lZ mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz` — Cyrus, Dec 21 '14 at 13:54
`file mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Wed Dec 17 20:17:29 2014, max compression` — PowerUser, Dec 21 '14 at 13:57
What's the output of `which tar`, `tar --version` and `file -zi mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz ` ? — Xavier Lucas, Dec 21 '14 at 13:58
Maybe you had to begin with "http://" this url giving to the wget? — peterh, Dec 21 '14 at 16:01
@PowerUser Post the output of `which tar` as requested. Also, make sure you use the correct archive path with the `file` command. — Xavier Lucas, Dec 21 '14 at 17:07
Is /public_html on some sort of exotic filesystem? As others have said, there is nothing in tar that should say that. — Gaius, Dec 21 '14 at 19:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '14 at 19:18

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How about if you try to unzip and untar in separate steps:

gunzip mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz

This will create the file mediawiki-1.24.1.tar, and then untar with:

tar xvf mediawiki-1.24.1.tar

Is that better?

answered Dec 21 '14 at 19:18

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