505 Delete Failed
Hi,
I am in the process of uploading a new website and I have hit a problem.
I'm using WS_FTP to upload the site to my server. I was trying to create a password protected page and uploaded an .htaccess file and .htpasswd file along with the rest of my files. When doing this I created a new folder for the page I wanted password protected (I'm trying to figure out how to do this) and put those files there. Unfortunately, now the site won't work, so I want to delete those files. I tried deleting everything from the folder and then deleting the folder but when I go to delete the folder I get a 550 Delete: File Exists error. As I look in the folder, there is nothing there, but interestingly enough, when I deleted the contents of the folder I did not see the .htaccess and .htpasswd files. It is showing that the size of the folder is 4096 so I figure there must be something in it (which would be why I can't delete it) but I don't see anything there. Please let me know if you need more information to help with my problem, just ask away! I apologize in advance if I didn't explain it properly but I am a novice at this.
Thanks in advance!
Tara
I am in the process of uploading a new website and I have hit a problem.
I'm using WS_FTP to upload the site to my server. I was trying to create a password protected page and uploaded an .htaccess file and .htpasswd file along with the rest of my files. When doing this I created a new folder for the page I wanted password protected (I'm trying to figure out how to do this) and put those files there. Unfortunately, now the site won't work, so I want to delete those files. I tried deleting everything from the folder and then deleting the folder but when I go to delete the folder I get a 550 Delete: File Exists error. As I look in the folder, there is nothing there, but interestingly enough, when I deleted the contents of the folder I did not see the .htaccess and .htpasswd files. It is showing that the size of the folder is 4096 so I figure there must be something in it (which would be why I can't delete it) but I don't see anything there. Please let me know if you need more information to help with my problem, just ask away! I apologize in advance if I didn't explain it properly but I am a novice at this.
Thanks in advance!
Tara
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Thanks so much! That worked perfectly!!! I appreciate the help!
#1 open mycomputer, go to tools, folder options at the top of the window, then click the view tab and tell explorer to show you hidden files and folder
#2 open a command prompt and navigate to the folder of your website. It will be something similiar to cd \inetpub\wwwroot\mywebsite