Please I had some issues with the party hosting my website, when i contacted another party they requested me to transfer my site to a folder "backup" in the root of my account so that they can see if they can deploy it or not. Which files should I put in this folder they said? please I need an answer it is very ugrent
Login your cPanel and create new backup of your account so that you will get your all files with the latest content to your new host.
You can generate backup with the following steps.
Login your cPanel >> Backup >> Download a full website backup >> and click on "Generate Backup"
Above steps will create the backup file in your root directory account. Then you will have to provide them your login details so that they will migrate your site.
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I am quite new to server migrations, but fairly familiar with cPanel though. My current task is to migrate an entire website from a server with cPanel to another one.
What I did so far:
Use the Backup Wizard on the old server to create a full backup archive, and FTP it to the new server.
The full archive (about 6 GB because there are a lot of images) is now in my new server's public_html directory.
Now, what I need is a way to make the server take this tar archive, which is a full backup, and restore from it.
What I tried:
I tried simply extracting the archive, but it is taking forever to finish (again the archive is 6 GB), and for some reason my browser tab has to stay open until the end of the process, otherwise the extracting halts.
Also, as I have WHM access, I tried the "Restore a Full Backup/cpmove File" option, but for some reason, under the "Username for the account that you wish to restore:" textbox, WHM does not find my cPanel username.
If anyone can either tell me what I am doing wrong, or propose another option, I would really appreciate it.
P.S.: I only have WHM access to the new server, not the old one.
Edit: I got the WHM method working now. My mistake was that my tar archive was not stored in the /home directory, but in the home directory of the cPanel user (which is /home/username)!
Move your cpanel full backup file to /home directory and if you root have access of the server use below command as /scripts/restorepkg (cpanel username )
OR
Login to WHM with root user and go through the steps mentioned on below URL.
http://documentation.cpanel.net:8090/display/68Docs/Restore+a+Full+Backup+cpmove+File
Hello fellow yellow bleeders.
We have a portal database that is in the root folder and the portal has links that point to DBs that are in subsequent folders(\app, \dev ...).
What can be done so Domino won't ask for log in when the users that logged in the portal won't be prompted when they open links in other folders.
Thank you
Single server or multi-server HTTP session authentication will work for the entire domain.
In the Server document or the Internet Site document:
I use a server with WHM. I created monthly backup, it makes full server backup to /backup folder. I can create targz file with SSH, I know how to download gziped file with pscp, but I don't know how to download it from server with link in browser. I think it's possible, because sysadmin before me did it.
Can anybody help me with that?
You want to generate a link that you can access through your browser and will be served up by the web server? (your question is a little vague)
These files are stored out of the standard web directories so you could create a symlink in the public_html folder of your website to /backups and call it something obscure so it can't be easily scraped.
So for example public_html/my-secure-backup-folder can be a symlink to /backups.
Guide on creating a symlink here: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9561/29/how-to-create-a-symbolic-link-in-cpanel
Easiest way to proceed:
Ssh to your WHM server then decide which cpanel account you need to backup. Create a full backup for that cpanel:
cd /home/cpaneluser/public_html
/script/pkgacct cpaneluser /home/cpaneluser/public_html
chown cpaneluser:cpaneluser /home/cpaneluser/public_html/cpmove-cpaneluser.tar.gz*
Then you can download the backup using your web browser by accessing your cPanel user's domain -> http://domain.tld/cpmove-cpaneluser.tar.gz
If you don't know the actual domain for that cPanel user you can do a cat /etc/userdomains | grep cpaneluser. It will show the configure domain for that account.
That would be all.
Alternatively you can login to the cPanel account using your web browser -> http://domain.tld/cpanel using the user/password combination for that cPanel account. There is a full backup function there (in the cPanel web interface) that does pretty much what I have explained earlier.
Sorry about English, Actually i have been looking for best article about WHM/CPANEL server migration but i could not find yet. Hope this is the right platform.
I have one WHM/CPANEL server running with CentOS x86_64 standard. Now i want to migrate all stuff to my new high end machine.
Need to Transfer: (All accounts along with databases, Exim configuration, Tweak settings, PHP etc etc).
Note: I need step by step guide which will be highly appreciated, I am not too much technical and in learning phase so please go easy on me.
Thanks in advance.
First you need to install and setup cPanel on your new server.
After that you can migrate your all cPanel account to new server through transfer tool. WHM >> Transfers >> Transfer Tool
Here are the some useful docs.
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+to+Move+All+cPanel+Accounts+from+One+Server+to+Another
cPanel setting are stored in /etc/wwwacct.conf and /var/cpanel/cpanel.config file so you can copy that setting to new server.
After the server setup is complete, you will have to recreate all the accounts you wish to move, on the server. You can create the domains in your server using the WHM and then restore the website contents manually using a FTP client(say FileZilla).
First you have to take the backup of your domain via cPanel. Please check below URL to find information regarding this:-
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/BackupWizard#Backup your entire site
Then Create the account in WHM.
Upload the contents in these newly created domain and restore them via WHM or cPanel.
To restore via WHM please follow below steps:-
Main >> Backup >> Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file
Please refer the cPanel docs link below on how to restore an account via cPanel.
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/BackupWizard#
If you have cpanel WHM server and you want to transfer your whole server accounts and websites to another WHM server then its really very easy and simple. All you need is root access of both server.
If you have set up your high end new WHM server, then login to your new WHM with root user and go to transfer tool from WHM > Transfers > Transfer Tool. It will show you fields to input the details of your low end server. Once you provide the root information of server it will fetch the accounts lists and account details. From there you can select which accounts to transfer and which to not. If you want to transfer all accounts then you can select all and proceed the transfer. It will transfer all your accounts with their current package details.
Try the cpanel transfer tool its easy and simple to understand and proceed.
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+to+Move+All+cPanel+Accounts+from+One+Server+to+Another
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Transfer+Tool
I have a web site on the cpanel(whm), I want to backup whole site and transfer it to another stand-alone server of my own, is that feasible? how to do it?
If the new server doesn't have cPanel I don't think there is a method of recreating automatically the account, so just try to run /scripts/pkgacct user(if you have root on cPanel server) or just use cPanel -> Backups -> Download or generate a full website backup.
Copy archive to the new server and start to manually recreate account, databases, etc.
Archive contain all the informations you need like dnszones, mysql databases, homedir.tar(all the files from /home/user), etc.
Yes! its easy!
Login to WHM
On the left there is Search box type Backup and click on Backup Configuration (OR go to Backup >> Backup Configuration)
Change Backup Status to enable
Check the options as per your requirement & at the end of page find Additional Destinations there might be drop down OR check box for FTP server click on that
FTP details of another server where you want to store all of your backups.
Hope it helps!