Topic: Find scripts that are not used

[griffo42]

I run the Saratoga scripts with Cumulus.  I would like to make my site as efficient as possible and to that end, I would like to shift all scripts that are not used by my current setup into an holding folder.  Could someone tell me a quick way, if possible, of finding those scripts which I don’t currently use?

Thanks

Keith
Brisbane, Australia

[ConligWX]

Hi Keith,

I don't think there is a quick way of actually doing that. You would be best to create a list of all PHP files in your website. Then start crossing off the ones you know are used for definite.

Then ones you have left over you can start to diagnose to see what content they have and what they might do.

I'm sure if you post the filenames here were could try to identify them for you if you're stuck trying to understand what they do.

Sorry if that's not the answer you were hoping for.

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[ConligWX]

Ps you need to update some scripts on your site too.

https://www.kstwx.net/check-fetch-times.php?show=versions

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[saratogaWX]

Just a quick nb:  scripts that are 'not used' (i.e. not invoked) have no effect on your site's performance or efficiency.

The Base distribution of the Saratoga template does include scripts/files that can be used if various features are enabled (multilingual for example) and all the AJAX scripts for all the weather software plugins (as they are geographically based).
The World template also includes 3 forecast scripts:
WC-forecast.php (WU/TWC), AW-forecast.php (Aerisweather) and DS-forecast.php (DarkSky) with the latter included for folks who have an existing DarkSky API key which will work until the end of 2021.  The old WU-forecast.php was deprecated as they shut off that API last year, so that is one script you could delete without harm as it doesn't work anymore.

Like ConligWX says, you do need some updates...

[ConligWX]

If your not wanting bots and trawlers, then I would create a robots.txt file and .htaccess to stop any unwanted access to files/folders and edited accordingly.

Also to harden your webserver use something like zbblock to stop the known hackers/trawlers and bots which is a fantastic script that also allows blocklists and cidram list blocking.

If you need any help with any of this just ask.


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