Title: php fatal errors on uninstall
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# php fatal errors on uninstall

 *  [barthat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barthat/)
 * (@barthat)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-on-uninstall/)
 * I had the following errors in my php error log after uninstalling backupwordpress.
 *     ```
       [27-Apr-2013 21:46:17] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'You can only delete directories inside your WordPress installation' in /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions/core.php:224
       Stack trace:
       #0 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/uninstall.php(23): hmbkp_rmdirtree('/')
       #1 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(851): include('/home/user/...')
       #2 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(727): uninstall_plugin('backupwordpress...')
       #3 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php(318): delete_plugins(Array)
       #4 {main}
         thrown in /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions/core.php on line 224
       [27-Apr-2013 21:47:07] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'You can only delete directories inside your WordPress installation' in /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions/core.php:224
       Stack trace:
       #0 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/uninstall.php(23): hmbkp_rmdirtree('/')
       #1 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(851): include('/home/user/...')
       #2 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(727): uninstall_plugin('backupwordpress...')
       #3 /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php(318): delete_plugins(Array)
       #4 {main}
         thrown in /home/user/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions/core.php on line 224
       ```
   
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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-on-uninstall/#post-3706739)
 * Thanks for reporting those errors, thats really useful.
 * You can also uninstall the plugin by simply deleting the plugin files.

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