Moving a domain

Discussion in 'General' started by rmontagud, Jul 31, 2014.

  1. rmontagud

    rmontagud New Member

    I need to move a domain from a ISPConfig to another, I've seen the web and mail directories so making tarballs of their /var/vmail/domainname and /var/www/clientX/webX directories shouldn't be a problem but which tables and config files should I look at to make a "transparent" transfer? (no mail/ftp account password changes)
     
    Last edited: Jul 31, 2014
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Moving a domain manually by changing the database and confi files is very error prone. the better approach is to make a tar.gz of the web folder and other files that you might have uploaded for this domain, then delete the website ad create it again on the new server and then restore the data from the tar.gz.
     
  3. rmontagud

    rmontagud New Member

    That's part of the original plan, but I still need to transfer mail account passwords to make it go smoothly. I can issue new passwords to ftp users (1 account per domain mostly), but there are domains with 20+ mail accounts per domain and issuing new passwords is not the best option for me.
     
  4. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Are this 2 separate servers or a ispconfig multiserver setup with 1 master?
     
  5. rmontagud

    rmontagud New Member

    Separate servers
     
  6. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    You acn import the mailbox settings with the function Tools > Import > Ispconfig email. Afterwards move over the whole file tree /var/vmail/domain.tld to the new server.
     
  7. rmontagud

    rmontagud New Member

    I missed that option, thank you Till, will try with a test domain
     

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