HelioHost Posted August 19, 2017 Posted August 19, 2017 When I loged into my account with ftp, I saw two folders, one called.well known or something like that, and the other was cgi-bin. I trieddeleting them, but they kept coming back. Could you explain to me whatthose folders are?
wolstech Posted August 20, 2017 Posted August 20, 2017 They're system folders that are normal. The cgi-bin folder is for executable scripts like perl and python. It has special permissions and attributes to allow these scripts to run, and such scripts won't work elsewhere without some extra steps. The .well-known folder is used by a few things. The most common is Let's Encrypt SSL, which stores its domain validation files in a subfolder called acme-challenge. If you don't understand the above, you can safely ignore these folders.
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