Unpublish a Website

[Guest]

How do I remove a published Web site. I have a live FP Website on existing
godaddy Web site. Well I created another FP2003 Web on my local drive that
I'd r like to publish instead. But, before doing so, I'd like clear the old
one put.

Suggestions?

I have WS FTP software too if it's easier to use that to delete the files.

Thanks!

 

[Windsun]

Easy way is to just publish over the old one. That will probably leave a lot
of unused files around though. Just open up the remote site with FP and
delete all the HTM, HTML, and images (NOT the folders marked with an
underscore _.

But what I usually do is just publish the new site, then when FP has the
double pane page open that shows both local and remote, I just see which
files on the remote have no matching file on local, hilight them and hit the
delete key...

 

[Guest]

Thanks...especially that tip about the folders starting with an underscore_.

 

[William Andersen]

When I revised my web site, I first deleted all of the files on the host
(cox.net). Then I published my new web. I was close to the maximum size
authorized, so I had to delete before I could add new.

 

[Tom J]

When I revised my web site, I first deleted all of the files on the
host (cox.net). Then I published my new web. I was close to the
maximum size authorized, so I had to delete before I could add new.

That's what I did also, even though I was no where near capacity. That
gives a complete clean install.

Tom J

 

[Bob]

That's what I did also, even though I was no where near capacity. That
gives a complete clean install.

Tom J

Supposedly if you click Options in the publish dialog and choose to
overwrite all files it will delete anything old. In practice, I have
found it does not always work and you are better off opening the
remote site via FP and manually deleting everything you created (not
the stuff that FP puts there, the stuff you created only).

 

[Tom J]

Supposedly if you click Options in the publish dialog and choose to
overwrite all files it will delete anything old. In practice, I have
found it does not always work and you are better off opening the
remote site via FP and manually deleting everything you created (not
the stuff that FP puts there, the stuff you created only).

Why do you say to only delete what I Put there? When I delete the
entire site using FTP, FP puts back everything it needs in the new
publish.

Tom J

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Not if you delete folders that are normally hidden in FP, like the _vti folders (plus you loose
permissions on the _private folder), which are created and managed by the FP extensions on the
server, and are never publish between locations/servers.

You should only delete content the can be seen from within FP via FP and then do not delete the
_private or images folder, just delete any content that is within them.

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