I have tried to search this all over XOOPS forum, but couldn't find a solution.

I have an old website build using XOOPS in a subdomain, and now I am about to delete the subdomain [including all the files]. When I tried to delete the 'uploads' folder, it says "550 Can't remove directory: Directory not empty".

I tried navigate into the 'uploads' folder, and found a 'newbb' folder. Inside the 'newbb' folder, there is a 'thumbs' folder. When I tried to delete the 'thumbs' folder, it says "550 Can't remove directory: Permission denied".

Then I noticed that the owner of both 'newbb' folder and it's 'thumbs' subfolder is 99, and not me, and the permission of both folders are 755.

Now, how do I delete those folders? I know I could just ask my hosting support to delete it for me, but if things like this happens again, it would be messy to ask my hosting support to delete it everytime. Besides, there must be some way that I can delete the folders myself [maybe using a php script?].

Hope someone can help me with this.

The owner is probably the webserver user (the user, the webserver is running as)

this small script could perhaps work for you:

Otherwise you will most likely have to call on your host's support.

Thanks Mith,

I just tried the small script you gave me. But it doesn't work. It gave me a warning:



I guess I have to call my host's support for this.

p/s: I was wondering, when a module create a file/folder inside the 'uploads' folder, who is the owner of the file/folder that the module created?

Ah bugger

unlink() is for files.

rmdir() is for directories. Try that instead

Hi

Did you give a try to CHMOD 777 those folders and after that try to remove them?

Hope this helps

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That works fine. Thanks Mith.

Btw wcrwcr, I did try to chmod 777 but it says permission denied, since the owner of the folder is not me.

Anyway, thanks everyone!!