Delete folders of expired links

[PeopleInside]

Describe the problem/question

When a created link expire the folder still left empty on the server, there is a way to delete also folders of expired links?

Did you use the FAQ section?

• Yes, I have read the FAQ and I found no solution/answer there.

What you did?

1. Create a link that expire in 1 day
2. When link expire the php page is deleted but folders for that link still exist in the data folder

What happens

When link expire the php page is deleted but folders for that link still exist in the data folder

What should happen

Folder of expired link also be removed

Additional information

No response

Server address

No response

Server OS

Ubuntu

Webserver

Apache

PrivateBin version

1.7.4

Browser and version

Firefox

Local operating system and version

Windows 11

Issue reproducibility

No, I cannot reproduce it on https://privatebin.net as I don't have SFTP access to check folders inside data :)

[elrido]

The included administration script comes with an --empty-dirs option that can handle that. See this page for more details on what it can do:
https://github.com/PrivateBin/docker-nginx-fpm-alpine?tab=readme-ov-file#running-administrative-scripts

[PeopleInside]

Hi, thank you for the reply!
I don't use docker or I don't understand well, from the guide what I should do.

The guide say about migrate, i don't won't migrate but have a cron that every day clean empty folder.
While i think is good the php file of expire links are deleted I don't like see many empty folder remain on the server, they made also hard find folders where the php file still be active because active links.

[elrido]

The script is not dependent on docker and part of the default PrivateBin distribution, not just the container image. You would simply call it from the PrivateBin folder, i.e. ./bin/administration --empty-dirs

It is not doing any sophisticated things either, and you could simply call the find data -type d -empty -delete (delete any empty directories in data) command directly from your cronjob:

PrivateBin/bin/administration

Line 86 in 9eadf09

passthru("find $dir -type d -empty -delete", $code);

[PeopleInside]

I think to understand now, thank you!
Just create a cron-job that run ./bin/administration --empty-dirs I will try to set this, thanks.

Done and it works, thanks! 🎊