---
title: "How to Remove a Custom EasyApache 4 Profile"
description: "cPanel includes a few default EasyApache 4 profiles that allow you to easily provision one listed under Available Profiles in WHM. Alternatively, you can customize your own configuration and save a..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/easyapache/how-to-remove-a-custom-easyapache-4-profile/
date: 2017-12-12
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["EasyApache"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Remove a Custom EasyApache 4 Profile

cPanel includes a few default EasyApache 4 profiles that allow you to easily provision one listed under *Available Profiles* in WHM. Alternatively, you can customize your own configuration and [save a custom profile](/support/edu/easyapache/how-to-save-a-custom-easyapache-4-profile/) to include in WHM’s list of *Available Profiles*. If you no longer wish to keep your custom profile, you can delete the profile’s *“.json” file* located in the */etc/cpanel/ea4/profiles/custom* directory. In this guide, we will provide the steps for how to **remove a custom EasyApache 4 profile**.

**NOTE: **A [VPS](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/vps-hosting) or [Dedicated Server](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/dedicated-servers) with [root access](/support/amp/obtain-root-access/) is required to follow the steps in this guide.
**NOTE: **If you are running EasyApache 3 (EA3), you can learn more about upgrading to EA4 in our guide: [How to Update EasyApache 3 to EasyApache 4](/support/edu/easyapache/how-to-update-easyapache-3-to-easyapache-4/).

## Remove a Profile

1. [Log into your server via SSH](/support/server/ssh/how-to-login-ssh/) as *root*. user@localshell ~ $ ssh root@server.example.com Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa': root@server.example.com's password: root@server [~]#
2. Use the **cd** command to change into the custom profiles directory: **/etc/cpanel/ea4/profiles/custom**. You can simply copy, paste, and run this command: cd /etc/cpanel/ea4/profiles/custom
3. Locate and remove the *.json file* that contains the name of the profile you created. For example, to remove the profiled we [previously saved](/support/edu/easyapache/how-to-save-a-custom-easyapache-4-profile/#save-a-profile): *suphp-event-all-php* we ran the command: rm -rf suphp-event-all-php.json

Now that you have removed your custom profile’s *.json file*, the WHM/EasyApache 4 interface will no longer display that profile in the *Available Profiles* list. If you remove a profile that matches the currently provisioned packages, the packages remain installed. You can simply add the profile back to the list by [converting the *Currently Installed Packages* into a profile](/support/edu/easyapache/how-to-save-a-custom-easyapache-4-profile/#convert-a-profile).