Uninstalling phpCMS

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[edit] Uninstalling phpCMS

These instructions assume that you want to completely uninstall phpCMS from your web space.
We deeply regret to see you moving away, but we nevertheless would like to make your departure an un-painful one.
(If you only want to upgrade your phpCMS installation do not uninstall it but refer to the section "Upgrade phpCMS" instead.)

[edit] Preparation

Important:

Remember that the web pages on your web space that were up to now delivered via phpCMS (content files) cannot be displayed correctly in a web browser if phpCMS is no longer working, as they are not complete HTML pages (there are important HTML elements missing there).

If you want to keep these pages in a working state without using phpCMS you could try the following:

1. Download and install a so called "offline browser" like "HTTrack", a freeware that is available for Microsoft Windows and UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD platforms.
2. Download your web site with this offline browser to your local computer.
3. Delete all the afore mentioned content files from your server (leave related files like cascading style sheets (*.css), image files (*.jpg, *.gif), JavaScripts (*.js) etc. untouched).
4. Upload the just downloaded pages to your server.
5. Test your web pages!

[edit] Uninstallation

Now to the uninstallation of phpCMS itself:

1. Delete the directory /parser (or whatever your phpCMS parser directory is called) and all its subdirectories.
2. Delete any /demo directory related to phpCMS and its subdirectories.
3. Delete the directories /form, /gif, /suche or /search, template, and/or whatever directory you created for the use by phpCMS only. They are probably located under your document root directory or the directory where your phpCMS content files were located.
4. If you had used the Stealth Mode of phpCMS, remove the file .htaccess from your document root directory (or the directory where your phpCMS content files were located) or - in case you still want to keep it for the other functions you might have had incorporated there - remove the phpCMS related entries like:
   • 'AddType application/x-httpd-parse .htm'
   • 'Action application/x-httpd-parse "/parser/parser.php?file="' or similar from it.

That's it - you're done!