By Leora
I have several WordPress sites running on a Digital Ocean droplet. I want to disable just one. I already did
a2dissite sitedomain.conf so it no longer shows as enabled. What else do I need to do? Delete the domain from the control panel?
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Heya, @leorawe
You’ve already done the main step by running a2dissite sitedomain.conf. To fully disable that one WordPress site:
- Reload Apache to apply the change:
sudo systemctl reload apache2
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(Optional) Remove or comment out the domain’s DNS records in your DNS provider or DigitalOcean’s control panel if you no longer want it accessible via the domain.
-
(Optional) If you’re not using the files anymore, you can delete the site’s directory (e.g.
/var/www/sitedomain), but it’s not required to disable it.
You don’t have to delete the domain from DigitalOcean control panel unless you want to stop DNS or free it up.
Regards
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