uninstalling self-hosted WordPress WITHOUT CPANEL

  • Resolved rmalderson3

    (@rmalderson3)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    I have been trying to correct an issue with my first WP installation for a number of weeks now, with the help of several people here in the forums, but I have come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to fully uninstall this experimental site and start over. I have nothing that I want to save, so I can just crush the whole thing and throw it away.

    EVERY online how-to assumes that there is cPanel access to the VPS on which WP is installed. THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH MY SITE.

    What do I need to do, in the file system and in the MariaDB database, to remove WordPress completely from my VPS?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    4 years, 3 months ago

    cd /path/to/wordpress
sudo rm -fr *
mysql -u root -p
   drop database mywpdatabasename;
exit

    You might then remove any config files you created in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ and /etc/php-fpm.d/

    Thread Starter rmalderson3

    (@rmalderson3)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you. It wasn’t clear whether there was anything else to be done, since the cPanel how-tos all boiled down to “click on button X”.

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