{"id":67324,"date":"2016-03-24T05:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=67324"},"modified":"2016-04-12T03:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:44:59","slug":"how-to-delete-files-on-the-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-delete-files-on-the-server.html","title":{"rendered":"How to delete files on the server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! This tutorial will show you how to <strong>delete files on the server<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SeLkNGoeeM?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">How to delete files on the server<\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>When you are managing your files on your server, you may need to delete files on the server. <\/p>\r\n<p>Files can be deleted in several different ways from your server. You can either use <strong>FTP program like FileZilla<\/strong> and delete files, or you can use your <strong>cPanel File Manager<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can use the cPanel file manager to delete files from your server. Below are the steps to delete a file from your server using the File Manager.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol> \r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<p>Log into your cPanel.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<p>Go to the File Manager, select your domain where you want to delete the files and click <strong>Go<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\r\n\t<\/li>\t\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<p>Navigate through your files to locate the file you want to delete. Right click the file and select <strong>Delete<\/strong> from the pop up menu:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1-300x215.png\" alt=\"How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_1.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\t\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<p>Confirm  file removal. Now the file will be gone from the server:<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2-300x218.png\" alt=\"How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2-150x109.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_2.png 706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<\/ol>\t\r\n\t<p>To open FileZilla and connect to your server, you can follow the steps below. This will only explain how to delete through FileZilla. Other FTP clients should work basically the same.<\/p>\r\n\t<ol>\t\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<p>Open FileZilla and connect to your server.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<p>Navigate to the file you want to delete on the server. Right click the file and select <strong>Delete<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3-300x204.png\" alt=\"How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3-150x102.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_3.png 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<p>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to confirm deleting. Now your file is no longer on the server:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4-300x124.png\" alt=\"How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4-150x62.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/How_to_delete_files_on_the_server_4.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t\r\n<\/ol>\t\r\n\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SeLkNGoeeM?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">How to delete files on the server<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will show you how to <strong>delete files on the server<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":67332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[770],"tags":[876,609,637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}