By hreason on
I decided that I don't want to use Drupal to make my website, but when I tried to upload a Mozilla Composer page onto the website, it won't upload. How do I get the Drupal site down? I've also tried with Dreamweaver and I can't get it to work from there either. I'm guessing Drupal is blocking me from putting my own site up. I don't know. I'm a very very beginner at this.
Thanks.
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Delete it
Just delete the files and the database.
Michelle
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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
How do I do that? On the
How do I do that? On the control panel?
Same way you installed it...
If you used FTP to upload the files, use FTP to delete them. If you used SSH, just use rm -rf on the Drupal directory. (Don't do that unless you know what you're doing... There's no undelete)
Michelle
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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
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because of your confusion ....... it sounds like you used a 1 click install provided by your host to do a drupal installation. like fantastico? Contact your host and have them remove it if necessary.
cpanel + fantastico?
If you are using cpanel and fantastico it's very simple to remove Drupal.
Hope that helps.
PHP beats HTML
The reason you aren't seeing the Dreamweaver code is almost certainly because your host server has been set up to give priority to the file "index.php" (as used by Drupal) over one called "index.htm" or "index.html" as created by Dreamweaver. To test this, try invoking the home page as http://example.com/index.htm (change as appropriate to your site).
If that works, all you need to do immediately is delete Drupal's index.php. You can delete all the other files and the database at your leisure.
I uninstalled fantastico
I uninstalled fantastico as suggested on this page because of the dangers in fantastico installations. I now installed Drupal 6.16 manually via my cpanel, ever since I have got my self into a mess. When I open the website, I get the following error message:
Site off-line
The site is currently not available due to technical problems. Please try again later. Thank you for your understanding.
If you are the maintainer of this site, please check your database settings in the settings.php file and ensure that your hosting provider's database server is running. For more help, see the handbook, or contact your hosting provider.
The mysqli error was: Access denied for user 'admin'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
And when I tried to reinstall, I get the following reply:
Drupal already installed
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:
Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Access denied for user 'admin'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct database hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?
For more help, see the Installation and upgrading handbook. If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your hosting provider.
I checked the settings.php fille and everything appears ok.
What else can I do to come out of this mess? Please help me urgently as am just pretty pissed off.
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to reinstall drupal you must empty the database, delete the settings.php file. copy the default.settings.php to settings.php as you did while installing the first time.
The settings.php file must be new otherwise it has database connection data in it that makes drupal believe it is already installed.