Access Website Without Domain & Files Ownership

Hi, I plan to migrate all my websites to new ispconfig NGINX server. I already copy the website's files & database, rename database name to match ispconfig database name etc - but I want to make sure that it work before I change DNS point to new IP (minimal downtime). Is there some way to access all websites before I point DNS to new IP - wiithout using vhost trick ?

Also, is it necessary to chown website's files & folder to web X username & client X group ? Can I just rename files & folder to www-data ? Is quota system (disk & bandwidth) still working if I dont set ownership to web X & client X ?

Thank you

 

Hi.
In short, because I am on mobile:

To test websites, add entries with that website in your local host file (on unix it is /etc/hosts).

Yes, you have to chown all webs to their owners, unless you are using modphp (which is a security risk).
HDD quota will not work when using www-data. Traffic quota will.

Regards
Marius

 

Thanks you Manus. Do you have short shell command to auto chown to match its user & group name ? It will be better if ispconfig has this command in cron.
It will be A LOT of work to migrate , but I see a better future with ISPconfig

 

Could be quite dangerous to use but if you want to risk it:

Code:

cd /var/www/clients
for C in client* ; do
  cd $C;
  for W in web* ; do
      chattr -i $W ;
      chown -R ${W}:${C} $W/web $W/private $W/tmp $W/webdav $W/cgi-bin ;
      chown -R root:root $W/web/stats;
      chattr +i $W;
  done;
  cd ..;
done;

 

Thanks a lot Manus. I already chown per web folder manually. But I'll keep this for future use. Thanks again.