# I need assistance with my old website, **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosting Support\ **Created:** [October 24, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559 "2026-10-24T11:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spark\_plast](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/spark_plast/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@spark\_plast](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/spark_plast)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/1 "2026-10-24T11:22:52Z")
### Website URL [https://spark-platform.free.je](https://spark-platform.free.je) ### Error Message Hello, I need assistance with my old website, spark-platform.free.je. Could you please confirm whether the file spark-platform-password.key, created by PHP in sys\_get\_temp\_dir(), still exists after I moved the website? Is there a secure way to retrieve it, or to check whether the temporary directory has been cleared? ### Other Information Hello, I need assistance with my old website, spark-platform.free.je. Could you please confirm whether the file spark-platform-password.key, created by PHP in sys\_get\_temp\_dir(), still exists after I moved the website? Is there a secure way to retrieve it, or to check whether the temporary directory has been cleared? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://infinityfree-forum-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/0/b024fd3fa88bae093c9576e55c2c94e33f890206.svg) [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/2 "2026-10-24T11:22:52Z")
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**Author:** ![Lemni](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/lemni/32/68303_2.png) [@Lemni](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Lemni)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/3 "2026-10-24T11:23:05Z")
_Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look._ Where did you move the website to? Do you mean from the free.je account to another InfinityFree account, such as the one you created the same day, or to a different host? I’m asking because the answer depends on which account’s PHP the file was written under. I also can’t find anything that says whether files in PHP’s temporary directory are kept or cleared here, so I can’t confirm that `spark-platform-password.key` still exists. What does your code use that file for? If it holds a password or encryption key, knowing that will show whether it can be recreated or has to be recovered. ---
**Author:** ![spark\_plast](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/spark_plast/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@spark\_plast](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/spark_plast)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/4 "2026-10-24T11:24:31Z")
moved the website from an InfinityFree free hosting account to a different paid hosting provider. The new website is [https://spark.a-t](https://spark.a-thar.casa/)The key is used by my PHP application to decrypt the students’ `password_encrypted` values so the teacher can view them. The application also stores password hashes for login. The key was automatically created in PHP’s `sys_get_temp_dir()` because I had not configured a separate key. I have a backup of the database, and it contains the encrypted values, but I could not find the key in the website files. Is there any way to recover that temporary key from my old InfinityFree account, or confirm whether temporary files are cleared?[har.casa](https://spark.a-thar.casa/). ---
**Author:** ![dan3008](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/dan3008/32/53336_2.png) [@dan3008](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/dan3008)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/5 "2026-10-24T12:57:45Z")
> [@spark\_plast](#): > > Is there any way to recover that temporary key from my old InfinityFree account, No. There isn’t a serverside backup. so if you don’t have the key, and it’s not on your accouint, then it’s been lost ---
**Author:** ![Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/admin/32/36437_2.png) [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/i-need-assistance-with-my-old-website/121559/6 "2026-10-24T14:07:50Z")
The key part to understand is that the key was created in the `sys_get_temp_dir()`, which is the system’s **temporary** directory. If you know the name of the key file, you can try to read the file from the temp dir using PHP code. However, since it’s still a temporary directory, it does get cleaned up, so there is no guarantee that the file still exists there. Without the file name, there is not much we can do. There is no way to browse the temporary directory, and hunting for a file with unknown names or contents is not something we can do for you. I don’t know how the temporary directory actually gets cleaned up and I have no way to check. With the file name, you can check yourself. Without it, you aren’t able to access the file even if it does exist.