Proper way to uninstall Flarum

mrXmr

How do I go about doing that? Do I just rm -rf * the /var/www/flarum folder? Or do I first remove the extensions of flarum using composer? And then lastly remove the flarum itself---again using composer?

Can someone bulletpoint down the steps to achieve this?

clarkwinkelmann

mrXmr just delete the Flarum folder and the database, then there's nothing left. All Composer state and files are in the Flarum folder.

Make sure to create backups if you dont' want your hard work gone forever.

If you are not using Composer for anything else on the server you could additionally clear Composer's cache to save some disk space. I think the command is composer clear-cache and can be run from anywhere. Composer usually has a hidden folder in .local or something where the cache is stored, that command will know which files can be safely deleted.

mrXmr

clarkwinkelmann Thanks for the reply. I will delete the flarum folder and uninstall (purge) the mariadb package from my debian 12 server.

If I wanted to remove Composer, too, what would I do?

clarkwinkelmann

mrXmr Composer is usually a single executable file, if you know where it is you can delete it with root privilege.

If you don't know where it is but access it via composer, you can run which composer to find its location (for example, on my system it returns /usr/local/bin/composer).

If you uninstalled Composer then you can also delete the entire ~/.local/composer or ~/.composer folder that holds any Composer configuration or cache. There will be one hidden Composer folder for every shell user that ever ran Composer.

mrXmr

Got it. Thanks.