Remove XOOPS from Server

In this post we are going to attempt to remove xoops from our build.

Remove Apache Settings
Remove xoops folders Location will be /var/www/flexpaul_net/xps_
Remove Xoops User from MariaDB
Restart Server

1. Disable sites virtual host: a2dissite

$ sudo a2dissite xps_

2. Remove Files

$ sudo rm -v /etc/apache2/sites-available/xps_.conf

*OR*

$ sudo rm -v /etc/apache2/sites-available/xps_*

The 2nd Command will remove all files starting with xps_. Use with caution.

It will remove xps_-le-ssl.conf & xps_.conf in the above example.

Remove the xoops files.

$ sudo rm -v -r /var/www/flexpaul_net/xps_

And the “hidden” files

$ sudo rm -v -r /var/www/.xps_private

That should remove all the files in use for Xoops.

Reload Apache2.

$ sudo systemctl reload apache2

3. Remove Xoops user and database from MariaDB.

open mysql >

$ sudo mysql

List your databases.

> SHOW DATABASES;

You should see a list of available databases, if you followed the previous tutorials, we are using database names and users in that tutorial.

Delete the database.

> DROP DATABASE myxpsdb;

and finally delete the user for that database.

Let’s list users.

> SELECT user FROM mysql.user

Then we remove our xoops database user.

> DROP USER myxpsdbuseruser@localhost;

We can then exit MariaDB (mysql).

> exit;

That should be it. You could reboot the server at this point.

$ sudo reboot now

Good Luck