diff --git a/public_html/valuestore/browse.php b/public_html/valuestore/browse.php
deleted file mode 100644
index f19da467f101fe776eb62d4062f8f8f0f81a793a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/public_html/valuestore/browse.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,167 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * 
- * VERSION HANDLER API
- * 
- * Syntax des Aufrufs (als GET Schreibweise; ein POST soll (später) auch gehen):
- * http://dev.ci.iml.unibe.ch:8002/versions/?action=update&project=ci&phase=preview&host=ci.preview.iml.unibe.ch&variable=version&value=007
- * 
- * Parameter:
- * 
- *      action=update (get-Funktionen muss ich später noch bauen)
- *      project=[Projekt-ID (=Name des Package, das installiert wird)]
- *      phase=(preview|stage|live)
- *      host=[FQDN]
- *      variable=version (andere noch nicht unterstützt/ vorgesehen)
- *      value=[Versionsdaten]
- * 
- * 2017-04-07  hahn  first lines
- */
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// functions
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * show an error message and quit with http status code 400 (Bad request)
- * @param string  $sMessage  message to show
- * @return boolean
- */
-function quit($sMessage) {
-    $sProtocol = (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] : 'HTTP/1.0');
-    header("$sProtocol 400: Bad request");
-    die("<h1>Bad request</h1>" . $sMessage);
-    return false;
-}
-
-/**
- * get a request param from GET and POST scope (POST has priority) and
- * verify it with execution of a cleanup array
- * @param string  $sKey            key to search for in GET or POST
- * @param string  $sRegex4Cleanup  regex for filtering
- * @return type
- */
-function getParam($sKey, $sRegex4Cleanup = false) {
-    $sValue=false;
-    if (array_key_exists($sKey, $_GET)) {
-        $sValue=$_GET[$sKey];
-    }
-    if (array_key_exists($sKey, $_POST)) {
-        $sValue=$_POST[$sKey];
-    }
-    if(!$sValue){
-        return false;
-    }
-    $sReturn = $sRegex4Cleanup ? preg_replace($sRegex4Cleanup, '', $sValue) : $sValue;
-
-    if ($sReturn !== $sValue) {
-        quit("ERROR: the parameter value in [$sKey = ...] has a wrong format.");
-    }
-    return $sReturn;
-}
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// check required params
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-/*
-if (!$_GET || !count($_GET)) {
-    quit("no parameter was found.");
-}
-
-foreach (array("action", "project") as $sKey) {
-    if (!array_key_exists($sKey, $_GET)) {
-        quit("value required: $sKey=");
-    }
-}
- */
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// get vars
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-$sAction = getParam('action', '/[^a-z]/');
-
-$sProject = getParam('project', '/[^a-z\-0-9]/');
-$sPhase = getParam('phase', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sPlace = getParam('place', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sHost = getParam('host', '/[^a-z\.\-0-9]/');
-
-if ($sHost && !$sPlace) {
-    $sPlace = 'installed';
-}
-
-$sVarname = getParam('variable', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sValue = getParam('value', '');
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// init class
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-$sOut='';
-$sHeader='';
-$sOut.='<h1>data browser</h1>';
-require './classes/valuestore.class.php';
-
-$oVersion = new valuestore();
-
-$aData=$oVersion->dumpdb();
-$sTable='';
-$sTableHead='';
-if(is_array($aData) && count($aData)){
-    // echo '<pre>' . print_r($aData, 1);
-    foreach ($aData as $aRow){
-        $sItemUrl='index.php?action=show&project='.$aRow['project'].'&package='.$aRow['package'].'&phase='.$aRow['phase'].'&host='.$aRow['host'].'&variable='.$aRow['variable'].'';
-        $sTable.='<tr ondblclick="location.href=\''.$sItemUrl.'\'">';
-        // $sTable.='<tr>';
-        foreach ($aRow as $sKey=>$sValue){
-            // $sTable.='<td class="'.$sKey.'"><a href="'.$sUrl.'">'.$sValue.'</a></td>';
-            $sOnclick='';
-            $sLabel=strstr($sValue, '"')
-                    ? htmlentities($sValue)
-                    : '<a href="#" onclick="$(\'#eFilter\').val(\''.$sValue.'\');filterTable();" title="click to filter by ['.$sValue.']">'.htmlentities($sValue).'</a>'
-                    ;
-            $sTable.='<td class="'.$sKey.'" '.$sOnclick.'>'.$sLabel.'</td>'."\n";
-        }
-        $sTable.='<td>'
-                // . '<button onclick="location.href=\''.$sItemUrl.'&action=get\'">View</button>'
-                . '<form method="POST" action="'.$sItemUrl.'">'
-                    . '<input type="hidden" name="action" value="delete">'
-                    . '<button>Delete</button>'
-                . '</form>'
-                . '</td>'
-                . '</tr>'."\n";
-        
-    }
-    foreach (array_keys($aRow) as $sKey){
-        $sTableHead.='<th class="'.$sKey.'">'.$sKey.'</th>';
-    }
-    $sOut.=''
-            . '<form method="POST" action="index.php">'
-                . '<input type="hidden" name="action" value="cleanup">'
-                . '<button>Cleanup (older 1d)</button>'
-            . '</form><hr>'
-            
-            . '<table id="tbldata"><thead>'
-            . '<tr>'.$sTableHead. '<th>action</th></tr>'
-            . '</thead>'
-            . '<tbody>'.$sTable.'</tbody></table>';
-    
-} else {
-    $sOut.='no data yet.';
-}
-// $sOut.='<script>addFilterToTable("tbldata"); filterTable();</script>';
-
-require_once("../deployment/classes/page.class.php");
-$oPage = new Page();
-$oPage->addResponseHeader("Pragma: no-cache");
-$oPage->setOutputtype('html');
-$oPage->setHeader($sHeader);
-$oPage->addJsOnReady('addFilterToTable(); filterTable();');
-
-$oPage->setContent($sOut);
-echo $oPage->render();
diff --git a/public_html/versions/classes/versions.class.php b/public_html/versions/classes/versions.class.php
deleted file mode 100644
index c3da08da4423a581cffa778cdd080d00c1f85587..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/public_html/versions/classes/versions.class.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,311 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * version data handler for the deployment tool
- *
- * @author hahn
- */
-class versions {
-    //put your code here
-
-    public $sProject = false;
-    public $sPhase = false;
-    public $sPlace = false;
-    public $sVariable = false;
-    public $sData = false;
-
-    /**
-     * filename of sqlite database file
-     * @var type 
-     */
-    private $_dbfile = false;
-    
-    /**
-     * create statement for the database
-     * @var type 
-     */
-    private $_sCreate = '
-        CREATE TABLE "versions" (
-          `id` INTEGER PRIMARY KEY  AUTOINCREMENT  NOT NULL  UNIQUE ,
-          `time` DATETIME,
-          `project` TEXT,
-          `phase` TEXT,
-          `place` TEXT,
-          `host` TEXT,
-          `variable` TEXT,
-          `data` TEXT,
-          UNIQUE (project, phase, place, host, variable) ON CONFLICT REPLACE
-        );'
-    ;
-    
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // CONSTRUCTOR
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    
-    /**
-     * constructor ... no params
-     */
-    public function __construct(){
-        
-        // cache dir is hardcoded to versions directory :-/
-        $this->_dbfile = __DIR__ . '/../data/versioncache.db';
-        
-        if (!file_exists($this->_dbfile)) {
-            $this->_createDb();
-        }
-    }
-    
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // PRIVATE 
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-    /**
-     * create sqlite database - called in constructor if the file does not exist
-     */
-    private function _createDb() {
-        if (file_exists($this->_dbfile)) {
-            echo "removing existing file $this->_dbfile ...<br>\n";
-            unlink($this->_dbfile);
-        }
-        echo "create database as file $this->_dbfile ...<br>\n";
-        $this->_makeQuery($this->_sCreate);
-        if (!file_exists($this->_dbfile)) {
-            die("ERROR: unable to create sqlite database " . $this->_dbfile);
-        }
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * execute a sql statement
-     * @param string $sSql   sql statement
-     * @param array  $aVars  array with values (uses PDO::prepare(); $sSql must contain placeholders :key)
-     * @return database object
-     */
-    private function _makeQuery($sSql, $aVars=false) {
-        // $this->_log(__FUNCTION__."($sSql)");
-        // echo "DEBUG: executing SQL<pre>$sSql</pre>";
-        $oDb = new PDO("sqlite:" . $this->_dbfile);
-        if ($aVars && is_array($aVars)){
-            $sth = $oDb->prepare($sSql);
-            $result = $sth->execute($aVars);
-        } else {
-            $result = $oDb->query($sSql);
-        }
-        return $result;
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * execute a sql statement
-     * @param string $sSql sql statement
-     * @return database object
-     */
-    private function _makeSelectQuery($sSql, $aKey=false) {
-        // $this->_log(__FUNCTION__."($sSql)");
-        // echo "DEBUG: executing select SQL<pre>$sSql</pre>";
-        $oDb = new PDO("sqlite:" . $this->_dbfile);
-        $oStatement = $oDb->prepare($sSql);
-        $oStatement->execute();
-        $aReturn=array();
-        while ($row = $oStatement->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
-          if ($aKey && array_key_exists($aKey, $row)){
-            $aReturn[] = $row[$aKey];
-          } else {
-            $aReturn[] = $row;
-          }
-        }        
-        return $aReturn;
-    }
-
-
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // PUBLIC GETTER
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    
-    
-    /**
-     * get list of current projects
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function getProjects(){
-        $sSql="select distinct(project) from `versions`";
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql, 'project');
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * get phases of the current project; a project must be set be set before
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function getPhases(){
-        if (!$this->sProject){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project first. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-        }
-        $sSql="select distinct(phase) from `versions`
-            WHERE
-                project='" . $this->sProject . "'
-            "
-            ;
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql,'phase');
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * get places of the current project; a project and must be set be set before
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function getPlaces(){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project, and phase first. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-        }
-        $sSql="select distinct(place) from `versions`
-            WHERE
-                project='" . $this->sProject . "'
-                AND phase='" . $this->sPhase . "'
-                ";
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql, 'place');
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * get hosts that have installed a project
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function getHosts(){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project, and phase first. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-        }
-        $sSql="select distinct(host) from `versions`
-            WHERE
-                project='" . $this->sProject . "'
-                AND phase='" . $this->sPhase . "'
-                AND place='deployed'
-                ";
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql, 'host');
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * get versions of the current place (project, phase and place must be
-     * set before)
-     * @see setProject()
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function getVersion(){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase || !$this->sPlace ){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project, phase and place first. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-        }
-        $sSql="select data from `versions`
-            WHERE
-                project='" . $this->sProject . "'
-                AND phase='" . $this->sPhase . "'
-                AND place='" . $this->sPlace . "'
-                AND host='" . $this->sHost . "'
-                AND variable='version'
-                ";
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql, 'data');
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * return currebntly set project, phase, place and host
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function whereiam(){
-        return array(
-            'project'=>$this->sProject,
-            'phase'=>$this->sPhase,
-            'place'=>$this->sPlace,
-            'host'=>$this->sHost,
-        );
-    }
-    /**
-     * return currebntly set project, phase, place and host
-     * @return type
-     */
-    public function dumpdb(){
-        $sSql="select * from `versions`";
-        return $this->_makeSelectQuery($sSql);
-    }
-    
-    
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // PUBLIC SETTER
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    
-    public function setProject($sProject, $sPhase=false, $sPlace=false, $sHost=false){
-        $this->sProject=$sProject;
-        $this->setPhase($sPhase, $sPlace, $sHost);
-        return $this->sProject;
-    }
-    
-    public function setPhase($sPhase, $sPlace=false, $sHost=false){
-        if (!$this->sProject){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-            return false;
-        }
-        $this->sPhase=$sPhase;
-        $this->setPlace($sPlace, $sHost);
-        return $this->sPhase;
-    }
-
-    public function setPlace($sPlace, $sHost=false){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project and phase. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-            return false;
-        }
-        if($sPlace!=='onhold' && $sPlace!=='ready2install' && $sPlace!=='deployed'){
-            die("ERROR: you set a wrong place [$sPlace]");
-        }
-        $this->sPlace=$sPlace;
-        $this->setHost($sHost);
-        return $this->sPlace;
-    }
-    
-    public function setHost($sHost=false){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase || !$this->sPlace){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project, phase and place. Use the setProject() method to do so.");
-            return false;
-        }
-        if($sHost && $this->sPlace!=='deployed'){
-            die("ERROR: a host can be set on place [deployed] only.");
-        }
-        if(!$sHost && $this->sPlace==='deployed'){
-            die("ERROR: on place [deployed] a host MUST be set.");
-        }
-        $this->sHost=$sHost;
-        return $this->sHost;
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * update a version
-     * @return boolean
-     */
-    public function updateVar($sVarname,$sValue){
-        if (!$this->sProject || !$this->sPhase || !$this->sPlace ){
-            die("ERROR: you need to set a project, phase and place. use the setProject() method to do so.");
-        }
-        $sSql="
-        INSERT into `versions` 
-        (`time`, `project`, `phase`, `place`, `host`, `variable`, `data` )
-        VALUES
-        (
-            '" . date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . "',
-            '" . $this->sProject . "',
-            '" . $this->sPhase . "',
-            '" . $this->sPlace . "',
-            '" . $this->sHost . "',
-            :variable,
-            :value
-        );
-        ";
-        return $this->_makeQuery(
-                $sSql,
-                array(
-                    'variable'=>$sVarname,
-                    'value'=>$sValue,
-                )
-        );
-    }
-    /**
-     * update a version
-     * @return boolean
-     */
-    public function updateVersion($sVersioninfos){
-        return $this->updateVar('version', $sVersioninfos);
-    }
-    
-}
diff --git a/public_html/versions/data/.htkeep b/public_html/versions/data/.htkeep
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/public_html/versions/index.php b/public_html/versions/index.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fbb34621e34ff0726834e92b03f430b06a15d54..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/public_html/versions/index.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,140 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * 
- * VERSION HANDLER API
- * 
- * Syntax des Aufrufs (als GET Schreibweise; ein POST soll (später) auch gehen):
- * http://dev.ci.iml.unibe.ch:8002/versions/?action=update&project=ci&phase=preview&host=ci.preview.iml.unibe.ch&variable=version&value=007
- * 
- * Parameter:
- * 
- *      action=update (get-Funktionen muss ich später noch bauen)
- *      project=[Projekt-ID (=Name des Package, das installiert wird)]
- *      phase=(preview|stage|live)
- *      host=[FQDN]
- *      variable=version (andere noch nicht unterstützt/ vorgesehen)
- *      value=[Versionsdaten]
- * 
- * 2017-04-07  hahn  first lines
- */
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// functions
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * show an error message and quit with http status code 400 (Bad request)
- * @param string  $sMessage  message to show
- * @return boolean
- */
-function quit($sMessage) {
-    $sProtocol = (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] : 'HTTP/1.0');
-    header("$sProtocol 400: Bad request");
-    die("<h1>Bad request</h1>" . $sMessage);
-    return false;
-}
-
-/**
- * get a request param from GET and POST scope (POST has priority) and
- * verify it with execution of a cleanup array
- * @param string  $sKey            key to search for in GET or POST
- * @param string  $sRegex4Cleanup  regex for filtering
- * @return type
- */
-function getParam($sKey, $sRegex4Cleanup = false) {
-    $sValue=false;
-    if (array_key_exists($sKey, $_GET)) {
-        $sValue=$_GET[$sKey];
-    }
-    if (array_key_exists($sKey, $_POST)) {
-        $sValue=$_POST[$sKey];
-    }
-    if(!$sValue){
-        return false;
-    }
-    $sReturn = $sRegex4Cleanup ? preg_replace($sRegex4Cleanup, '', $sValue) : $sValue;
-
-    if ($sReturn !== $sValue) {
-        quit("ERROR: the parameter value in [$sKey = ...] has a wrong format.");
-    }
-    return $sReturn;
-}
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// check required params
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-if (!$_GET || !count($_GET)) {
-    quit("no parameter was found.");
-}
-
-
-foreach (array("action", "project") as $sKey) {
-    if (!array_key_exists($sKey, $_GET)) {
-        quit("value required: $sKey=");
-    }
-}
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// get vars
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-$sAction = getParam('action', '/[^a-z]/');
-if ($sAction !== "get" && $sAction !== "update") {
-    quit("action is unknown or not implemented yet.");
-}
-
-$sProject = getParam('project', '/[^a-z\-0-9]/');
-$sPhase = getParam('phase', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sPlace = getParam('place', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sHost = getParam('host', '/[^a-z\.\-0-9]/');
-
-if ($sHost && !$sPlace) {
-    $sPlace = 'deployed';
-}
-
-$sVarname = getParam('variable', '/[^a-z]/');
-$sValue = getParam('value', '');
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// init class
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-require './classes/versions.class.php';
-
-$oVersion = new versions();
-$oVersion->setProject($sProject, $sPhase, $sPlace, $sHost);
-
-switch ($sAction) {
-    case 'get':
-        print_r($oVersion->getVersion());
-
-        break;
-    case 'update':
-        if (!$sVarname) {
-            quit("ERROR: the update action requires a variable and a value.");
-        }
-        switch ($sVarname) {
-            // case 'other-varname':
-            case 'version':
-                if ($oVersion->updateVar($sVarname, $sValue)){
-                    echo "OK: $sVarname was updated.";
-                } else {
-                    echo "ERROR: update for $sVarname failed.";
-                }
-                break;
-
-            default:
-                quit("ERROR: update of variable [$sVarname] is not supported.");
-                break;
-        }
-        break;
-
-
-    default:
-        quit("ERROR: the action is not supported.");
-        break;
-}