How to clean up provisioned, deployed and deleted websites?

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Hi guys,

I’m using Trellis and Bedrock to provision and deploy WordPress websites, and so far it works out great. I’m wondering about one thing though. How do I keep my Digital Ocean droplet clean?

Flow

  1. Add website example.com and its credentials to wordpress_sites.yml and vault.yml
  2. Provision server and deploy website
  3. Remove example.com and its credentials from wordpress_sites.yml and vault.yml
  4. Re-provision server (without example.com credentials)

Now, when I SSH into my server I can still see the nginx configuration files in /etc/nginx/sites-available, the folders in /srv/www/example.com and the database of example.com. Is it weird I expected to see these files removed? If not, how can or should I clean these files up?

Thanks in advance,

Dave van Hoorn

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No, I’d probably expect that as well. It’s actually never come up until now. I have a feeling people don’t remove sites too often.

It’s not very easy to dynamically remove things via Ansible. Here’s one existing place we do it: https://github.com/roots/trellis/blob/cbe647a26a95126a3cf7fd8ace7f1f2f0454adf0/roles/wordpress-setup/tasks/nginx.yml#L26-L48

It’s not nice :frowning: I suggest just manually deleting folders/confs/databases.

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Allright, I’ll manually remove the files. Thanks for getting back to me.

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Could you maybe provide steps what/where/how to manually delete the files, without resorting to full purge of the box?

I guess rm -rf /srv/www/<SITE> would be the first step. How to delete databases for old sites?

Thanks in advance!

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