• Hi everyone. I was hoping that someone can answer this question for me as I see different answers in different places.

    I just did a wordpress install following the directions found on this site: https://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress

    It worked, but my question now is: I seem to have more files in my FTP root folder than usual. I usually install wordpress using fantastico but for some reason it didn’t work, so I had to do it manually.

    Here are some files I have. Can someone please let me know if anything needs to be removed? (These are in my public HTML folder)
    wp-activate.php
    wp-blog-header.php
    wp-comments-post.php
    wp-config-sample.php
    wp-config.php
    wp-config.txt
    wp-cron.php
    wp-links-opml.php
    wp-load.php
    wp-login.php
    wp-mail.php
    wp-settings.php
    wp-signup.php
    wp-trackback.php

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  • Hey wswookie,

    All those files are required for WordPress to run properly. I would not remove any of those.

    Thread Starter wswookie

    (@wswookie)

    Hi ehoanshelt, even the wp-config.txt? I guess I am just worried about someone hacking the site more than normal since the setup was manually and not through fantastico.

    Hey wswookie,

    That is a hard one to catch in the list. My eye gazed right by it!

    wp-config.txt should be removed as that is not related to WordPress. Depending on the content in the .txt file, it could be a major security risk.

    Thanks!
    Eric

    Thread Starter wswookie

    (@wswookie)

    Hi ehoanshelt. Is there a list of wordpress 4.1 files that should be in the public html folder?

    Thanks again for looking.

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