By droshani on

Hi,
I need to remove Drupal testing folder complete from my hosting server so I reinstall a new fresh one. No mater what I do the Site folder is not deletable at all. Do you think there is any way I can do this.

Thanks

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snufkin commented

I had the same issue. Please describe your installation environment on the following bugreport, and which files you couldnt remove (try going into the sites dir and removing the files separately): http://drupal.org/node/218210

I have the suspicion that on some environments the file ownership is not set correctly, and thus only root access can later remove them.

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sillhuwet commented

Tried to chmod them first to 777 and then delete them, but now I have three folders I can't delete ;), so I have to contact my provider about this.

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ceejayoz commented

The files folder becomes owned by the webserver's user, not your FTP user. Contact your host to have them deleted, or you could do it via a custom PHP script (as PHP runs as the webserver user and thus has permission to do it).

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snufkin commented

thats true, but generally you access the files via cpanel file browser, and doesn't that runs as the webserver's user?

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vm commented

yes. I too will use my hosts panel when I can't delete a folder or file.

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ceejayoz’s picture

ceejayoz commented

I don't have cPanel, so I'm not sure. It's worth a shot, but it may run as its own cpanel user or something.

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droshani commented

I read no matter what you can move this files, so create a dump folder and move them there, then ask your Server Admin to delete the dump folder for you.