deleting files.

[Erikk]

hi i have a hosting where they use directadmin. i am the coder for the website now but someone else started the website and installed a joomla website. when he left the website owner gave me the job of creating a website. al is well i created the website. but there ar still files and directorys form the old website. and i cant seem to get them deleted. when i press delete on one of the files or directory then ill get an error saying :
- when deleting an directory: Unable to delete directory /domains/fof-clan.nl/public_html/delete this. The directory /domains/fof-clan.nl/public_html/delete this is not empty
-when trying to delete a file: Write access to the directory containing /domains/fof-clan.nl/public_html/templates/jsh_callofduty4/index.php is not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.

how can i delete these files? they are taking up a lot of disk space

 

[jlandes]

Have you tried doing it through FTP? Also, the files and folders that are causing you problems might be owned by Apache. Browse to the file or folder in the file manager and click the Reset Permissions link. HTH.

 

[Erikk]

tried doing it with ftp but that also gives a permission denied.

the files are indeed owned by apache. i tried the Reset Permissions link but no result.

 

[jlandes]

Did you try doing it recursively? There should be a link beside Reset Ownership to do that. The files should be owned by the user and not Apache. Otherwise, you won't be able to delete them.

 

[Erikk]

finaly got it deleted. it indeed needed the Recursively option. did it on the holding map first and then on the file. now i can delete them now.

thanks alot.