By hyruletemple on

Hi,
I want to remove drupal from my website, but I do what it asks, and then it doesnt remove it... What do I do?

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vm commented

simply delete the DB, then delete all the files and its gone.

drupal doesn't have an auto uninstall, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say "you do what it, asks". You have to do it manually.
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hyruletemple commented

It still gives me a 403 Forbidden. I have free hosting and I can only have one database... It won't let me have another and I deleted everything
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-Anti- commented

> It still gives me a 403 Forbidden

Delete the .htaccess file too.
Or maybe your public_html directory is actually set-up to give a 403 error if there are no scripts in there?

> I have free hosting and I can only have one database

Deleting the database is a completely different operation from deleting files.
You need to use mySQL or phpAdmin (whatever your host has provided) to
delete the database.

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-Anti- commented

> I want to remove drupal from my web[space], but I do what it asks,
> and then it doesnt remove it... What do I do?

'do what it asks'? I don't think there is an automatic uninstall procedure. You simply:

- ftp to your webspace (or use the file manager in your host' control panel).
- delete all the drupal files in your public_html directory
- use phpAdmin in your host's control panel to delete the drupal database.
- if you used a cronjob, remove it using your host's control panel.

and extra:
- if you had a multi-site set-up, remove any symlinks or virtualhosts.

That's all. Once you know where to look in your host's control panel, it should
take less that two minutes.