Web Files Stored In Multiple Locations

[Keith Jordan]

I am fast running out of disk space on my virtual dedicated server so was looking for things to delete when I noticed my website is stored multiple times in different locations!! This will not do and will have to be stored in one location once!!

I noticed my website is stored at...

C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mywebaddress.com\httpdocs
C:\Inetpub\vhosts\Servers\xxxx\localuser\ftpaccount1\httpdocs
C:\Inetpub\vhosts\Servers\xxxx\localuser\ftpaccount2

1 - Why is this? Is it because when I upload via FTP on the two FTP accounts I have set up, the files are stored in the Servers folder.

2 - Is the website served from C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mywebaddress.com\httpdocs

3 - Can I delete all the files in both of the ftp account folders?

4 - How do I stop this happening in future? Just use the admin account when FTPing to the server so it goes straight into the vhost folder C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mywebaddress.com\httpdocs ?

My site is about 2GB in total so dont need 4GB wasted in those other folders!!

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

 

[prince]

just in one location only

Hi,

Your website is just present in one location c:\inetpub

Other directories ie, the ftp directories just act as pointers to the original location which gives
you a feeling that they are stored in multiple locations.

 

[Keith Jordan]

Thanks for the ininformation, prince! I hadn't come across that before!! ;-)