Mushfique Khan
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Website; files to know
I've to upload a newly designed website files to the server, but also have been asked to remove/download and delete everything which belongs to the old website.
Means have to take a backup of the old site files and remove/delete them from hosting server and upload these new files.
My question is how to know, which files are related to my old site, because there are so many files/folders there, for the old site.
Is there any tool/way to know, which files belong to this website?
Please do suggest/advice, if my question is not very clear.
Thanks in advance.
Means have to take a backup of the old site files and remove/delete them from hosting server and upload these new files.
My question is how to know, which files are related to my old site, because there are so many files/folders there, for the old site.
Is there any tool/way to know, which files belong to this website?
Please do suggest/advice, if my question is not very clear.
Thanks in advance.
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Just ask your host to zip up everything in your web folder (if they are nice), download the zip and delete everything else that is left (and as Ray said get a dump of any database)
Having a backup of the 'old files' may be important if you start getting calls about "404 not found" errors because they're gone.
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The trouble with a crawler is that it will only find 'exposed' or public files. I have a number of sites where there are important files that are not even linked in the visible files, only in include statements in PHP files. A crawler would miss all of those.
Agree with DaveBaldwin -- a crawler is not an acceptable tool. It really is a computer science project, not a question with any succinct "answer" any more than "how do I bake a pie" might have an answer. There are many different processes and they yield many different outputs. This is one of those questions. If you have to ask, you need professional help. Best of luck with it. Make backups and give yourself plenty of time to make mistakes along the way, ~Ray