Uninstall eZ publish 3

• Uninstalling on Windows
• Installer
• Without installer
• Uninstalling on Linux and FreeBSD
• Installer
• Without installer
• Uninstalling on Mac OS X
• Without installer

Windows

Installer

Uninstalling eZ publish should be very easy. In windows you simply Click Start - Settings - Control panel. Open Add/Remove programs and find eZ publish on the list. Highlight eZ publish and click the Change/Remove button. This will delete eZ publish 3.

In addition you might want to remove the eZ systems directory because files created after the installation of eZ publish (e.g Apache log files) don't get deleted by the usual uninstall

Without Installer

If you did not use the installer, simply remove your eZ publish directory.

Linux and FreeBSD

Installer

1. To uninstall eZ publish you must be root. Become root by typing

    # su -

   and enter your root password when prompted for.
2. Go to your extracted ezpublish-xxx-xxx-i386 directory and run

    # ./install.sh

3. The installer automatically searches for an existing eZ publish 3 installation and highlight choice number two on the menu. Make sure choice number 2 "Uninstall eZ publish" is selected and press Enter.

Without installer

1. To uninstall eZ publish you must be root. Become root by typing

    # su - 

   and enter your root password when prompted for.
2. Now to remove all the eZ publish files just run

    # rm -fr <httproot>/ezpublish-xxx

If you installed eZ publish using the installer and you deleted the extracted installer directory afterwards, don't panic. It's easy to manual uninstall eZ publish.

1. To uninstall eZ publish you must be root. Become root by typing

    # su - 

   and enter your root password when prompted for.
2. Before we can remove any files, we need to stop both Apache and MySQL. First go to the bin directory located in /opt/ezpublish

   # cd /opt/ezpublish/bin

   now to stop Apache and MySQL run

    # ./ezpublish stop

3. Both Apache and MySQL should now be stopped. To remove all the eZ publish files run

    # rm -fr /opt/ezpublish

   and remove the ezpublish lock file

   # rm -f /var/state/ezpublish/ezpublish.lock

All traces of eZ publish should now be gone.

Mac OS X

Without installer

1. To uninstall eZ publish you must be root. Become root by typing

    # su - 

   and enter your root password when prompted for.
2. Now to remove all the eZ publish files just run

    # rm -fr <httproot>/ezpublish-xxx

All traces of eZ publish should now be gone.