Remove top dir for obsolete websites

Website URL

rongrimes.42web.io (website removed, directory still exists)
rongrimes2.42web.io (same)

Error Message

Can’t remove directory: Permission denied
(htdocs inside directory also can’t be removed)

Other Information

These 2 websites are obsolete. Please remove them or let me know what I need to do to enable removing them.

What happens if you try deleting the folders using a desktop FTP client like FileZilla?

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Same.
|Command:|RMD htdocs|
|Response:|550 Can’t remove directory: Permission denied|

Trying to delete htdocs in the folder. Perms are 777. Perms in parent dir are 755 and I can’t change them.

It appears that the directory ownership on those directories is not set correctly which is why those folders cannot be deleted.

However, there should be no harm in keeping them. It won’t affect other websites and it won’t affect your ability to host the domains on the same or another account. The only downside is that they consume 2 inodes (out of 60,000) and that they don’t “look nice”.

But sending this up the chain to a server admin because it doesn’t look nice in the file manager is not really justified I think.

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