Hi, I have an old Server with ubuntu 12.04 and ISPconfig with a lot of Websites (only websites are used, no email or any other feature). Now I would like to setup a new Server with ubuntu 14.04 (I don't use 16.04 because I want PHP5 as default) and copy all websites from the old server to the new server. What is the best way to do that? My plan is like that: 1. Install the new server with ubuntu 14.04 and ISPconfig 2. copy everything from /var/www from the old to the new server 3. copy all databases from the old to the new server including dbispconfig 4. copy everything from /etc/apache2 to the new server 5. copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd to the new server Is that enough to get the websites running? Is there a better way to do that job? Please keep in mind that I am switching from ubuntu 12 to ubuntu 14. Your help would be highly appreciated. Jürgen
This should generally work, but I would change a few steps. 1-3: ok 4) I won't do that.better login to ispconfig as last step and use Tools > resync to let ispconfig write the vhosts files. 5) Do not copy all users and groups. I would copy just the lines for the web* users and client* groups plus the ssh users created for ispconfig websites to the new server from passwd, group, shadow and gshadow file. 6) Copy /var/log/spconfig/httpd/* over and then the bind mount lines in /etc/fstab and run 'mount -a' to activate them 7) as mentioned in 4) Login to ispconfig and run tool > resync.
Thank you very much for your absolutely fast response. It is very helpful, because I never used the resync-Tool and completely forgot 6). I will do this Job over the weekend - if I don't come back, everything went right.
