Hello! I had an RSS app (tiny tiny RSS probably) on my domain but I haven’t used it for many years. I was going through cPanel and cleaning things up, and uninstalled the app from “my apps.”
Now, I still have a folder in my cPanel file manager called RSS, and it has a file that is recording errors like all the time. Screen shot of the RSS folder below.
Should I delete the folder/files? I don’t want to keep generating errors. And this URL for my earlier RSS feed gives fatal errors now. Would rather not have this as a subdomain anymore and not sure how to delete it!
Okay I found a way to delete the subdomain at least. I went to cPanel, then Domains, and got to a screen to delete the subdomain. But it says it won’t delete the files in my root. Should I delete those too if I’m not using this at all?
As I said, it includes an “error_log” doc that is seemingly updating frequently (every day?) with errors, and that seems like unnecessary work for something I’m not using at all.
Yes, I would suggest deleting the files in your root there as well. The error_log is likley something trying to visit that old broken site, or maybe an automated process that’s still set up to run. In either case deleting the unneeded files will be a good thing to do.
Thank you so much! I’ll delete the subdomain and the files too. I have a lovely RSS reader I like to use and wasn’t using this part of my site at all. I had forgotten about it until I was cleaning some other things up. Thanks again!
I’d look in the cron section of your cpanel, that’s where it might have stashed a script to run on a regular basis to check your feeds. If you see one that is referencing that old directory, nuke it.
Ah yeah good point. I’m used to WordPress which has its own system for that kind of thing, but some other applications do put cron entries in. I wouldn’t be suprised if Tiny Tiny RSS did.
Thank you both! I’ve deleted the rss folder through the file manager in cPanel. I checked the chron jobs area in cPanel and there were no chron jobs listed there. So I think I’m good at this point.
