Uninstall System?

[ryani210693]

Hi there,

It may come as a shock to some- but CMS Made Simple needs un-installing.

This is because it has gone absolutely crazy on us. The admin area is not styled at all and also i can not get rid of a module that has completely ruined the admin area (which i think is linked to the styling problem).

The Orders module wont even delete from my files on the webserver, I can't overwrite the file which I think i have corrected and it just wont leave! The Orders module has been causing problems in which I cannot access the Modules area within the Admin area- it comes up with a PHP error on that page and others.


I've also tried removing tables linked to the Orders module and then deleting the folder, and they just wont budge...also trying to change permissions when attempting to overwrite the file (which I believe is causing the problem) is not working. I am using cPanel by the way.

Is there a solution?

Thanks, Ryan.

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

uninstalling is only a matter of removing the files. Somewhat the opposite of uploading. Any sane FTP tool should do it easyly. I fail to understand your trouble.
I don't know cPanel but I'm sure there is some removing feature in it.

Pierre M.

[argraff]

I'm having the same trouble after having a permissions issue run amok. I have deleted all of the files, and yet the modules and uploads folders will not go away. They have permissions 777, and give no errors. And now that I've mucked with the permissions trying to make them go away, I'm afraid to reinstall on top, lest I have the same issues again! Help!

PS The only module in the folder is 'Play.' I don't know if that helps diagnose it or not. All the other modules are gone.

[argraff]

Well, the only thing I've found scouring Google is to move the files/folders you can't delete to a new folder (mine's named 'goaway'!). Install as needed and check later to see if you can delete the unwanted folder some other time - or maybe someone here will know something!

[Pierre M.]

So may be it is a good idea to uninstall non-core modules with the module manager and to remove files with the file manager before uninstalling the core and the database.

Pierre M.

[Dr.CSS]

The first post has no way of uninstalling in the admin area, I've had remove offending modules before and most times it was easy to just go to site, FTP, and delete the modules folder, if that didn't work i would change the permission on that folder to 777 then try, if not work change the permissions on the parent folder, modules in this case, to 777 and that was last resort that worked...

cPanel should let you remove any folder or file on your server, if it fails to do so try changing permissions first...

[argraff]

I read somewhere in the docs something about 'nobody' or 'apache' files being untouchable by users...and then something about the umask - can't find it now though but that was/is my problem. I'm just leaving them on the server until I have enough time to really muck around with it.

Thought maybe the above clue would lead someone to it in the docs though.

[alby]

For uninstalling a module when is impossible to use admin part:
with an sql tools (ex: phpmyadmin) edit [cms_]modules table and update to 0 active and install fields

this not delete files, sql tables, templates and settings of module but now admin part should work

Alby