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Is it safe to delete the html.old folder on Droplet?

Posted on August 16, 2017

I noticed an “html.old” folder in var/www with two files, index.html and info.php, is it OK to delete the folder from an Ubuntu droplet?



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Yes, go ahead and delete then, they are just placeholders.

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