Uninstalling osCommerce - without fantastico

[cayenne]

I had no problems doing this many, many times on my own computer, when I did not have the 'benefit' of using fantastico. Now, I have everything installed on my site, but I am working my way through some contributions and would like to start fresh again. I installed using the Fantastico installer that my provider offered, which went off without a hitch. It did not, however, install osCommerce to a 'catalog' directory - something I overlooked because Fantastico has an uninstall feature, so I wasn't worried. Anyways, fastforward to today...

 

I'm trying to uninstall via fantastico, which requires I hit the 'prepare for removal button' before clicking 'remove.' On clicking 'prepare...' I get a nice long error message. Clicking remove has no effect. So now I'm stuck trying to pick through the files in the main directory and making sure I don't delete anything important, but remember to delete everything that IS important. I have everything backed up, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Fantastico that might be able to tell me what the 'prepare for removal' feature is supposed to do - maybe I can do it manually, and still be able to use the automatic removal tool. Thanks for any help you can give.

[cayenne]

actually, I went into the prepare_removal.php file, and the coding says:

 

<?php

$scriptpath_show = $_POST['scriptpath_show'];

$localapp_folder_name = $_POST['localapp_folder_name'];

if($localapp_folder_name == "")

{

$filelist = $scriptpath_show."/fantastico_fileslist.txt";

$filelist_contents = file($filelist);

foreach($filelist_contents as $file)

{

if(trim($file) != "")

{

$file = trim($file);

$shell = `chmod -R 777 "$scriptpath_show/$file" 2>&1`;

}

}

}

else

{

$shell_result = `chmod -R 777 "$scriptpath_show" 2>&1`;

}

echo "Operation completed. Close this window and proceed with removal.";

?>

 

but I don't really know what that means. Is it trying to make all the files in the fantastico filelist 777? I'm getting an error message that says:

 

(none) my.router.ip.address /prepare_removal.php www.mydomain.com Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 500

 

when i run it. thanks again.

[cayenne]

any chance anyone can 'decode' that prepare_removal.php file for me? thanks...

[Rob123]

I suggest that you ask your hosting provider for support (ak them to delete the files)?

Explain that you're having problems using Fantastico and provide the error message.

 

I think the reason why no one is responding to your questions is because it is not really an osC issue.

 

Just my 2 cents,

Robert

[cayenne]

Thanks for your response, Rob. LOL - this is the reply I got from the hosting company on asking them to delete osCommerce because fantastico was erroring out on me:

 

-----------------------------------------------

Matt W. has responded to your help desk request.

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Hello,

 

Please check with the developers at http://www.oscommerce.com/.

 

Thank you,

 

Matt W.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

 

 

This certainly wasn't my first choice for this particular problem, but I had hoped that someone who knows more about php than I would maybe be able to tell me what that file was attempting to do. I think what I will end up doing if I can't find an alternate solution by tomorrow is install a fresh copy on my computer and just delete everything that I see in both places. Will this cause me any problems down the road? Thanks again.

[♥Vger]

You can uninstall your existing installation quite simply. Just FTP to your website and delete all of the files. Then look for the SQL folder and delete the database. Uninstall completed.

 

Vger