Hi all

I had various accidents with my website. Can I destroy all files and directories and restart from zero? Can you list the files and directories I have to put in the zeroed site ?

Thanks

   tito

36 views? hmm some people may not be sure what is safe to delete, or needs to be kept.   Hope this helps

You are best to only delete folders and files inside the public_html folder but please make sure not to delete the cgi-bin folder inside the public_html folder. Before doing the deletions, if you have done any Fantastico installs, uninstall the apps using the Fantastico menu so as to ensure that your Fantastico information regarding mySQL database usage is kept up to date.

Please leave the following folders intact - do not delete them :

etc folder : This is not to upload to, this folder is for the system.
mail folder : This folder is for the system in regards to the email accounts for your site. You should not make any changes to this folder.
public_ftp : This folder is for accounts that setup anonymous FTP
public_html : This is the folder you will upload your files to.
cgi-bin: This folder is for CGI scripts.
tmp : This is a folder for the sytem.
www : is a copy of the files in the public_html folder. You do not want to delete files in this folder. It will delete them from public_html folder.