Hello Fred,
We've made these types of migrations many times without any
significant problems by simply editing the virtusertable and
manually adding the relevant e-mail addresses. This usually involves
duplicating the temp domain e-mail addresses (that can be created
through CPX Control Panel), and changing the temp domain name to the
new domain.
After the domain(s) are resolving to the new VPS3 we remove the temp
domain entries in /etc/hosts, /etc/mail/virtusertable and
/etc/mail/local-host-names, cd to /etc/mail/ and run make; restart_sendmail.
VPS accounts are initially configured with the hostname of your
choice during provisioning for this very reason.
In general, we haven't found it necessary to edit cpx.conf with the
exception of issues like the one Ghislain reported re; the File
Manager not showing.
I completed a similar migration just last week and the above is a
very approximate description of how it was handled. We had zero
problems with e-mail and the customer is very happy.
If I've left something out please let me know.
Cheers,
Uwe
<ps>It would be interesting to know which VPS flavor your customer
chooses.</ps>
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Fred Bloggs wrote:
Hi,
I have a client who is currently on a vps2. As he needs mysql5,
php5 and apache2 I advised hom to take a linux of vps3 account with us.
As verio kindly offers us the 1st month free for an account, I
setup a linux and a vps3 account, both with CPX. Both accoynts have
a temp domain (linux.client.com and vps3.client.com) , until the
client's domain (client.com) is moved to the server of his choice.
Below you will see my problem and the way I attacked it. (Verio
support understood my problem, but could not really give me the
solution I wanted).
I would like advice, if I did the right thing, because the last
thing I want is CPX to kill e-mail or the website, when the domain
gets moved to one of the new accounts.
The client want's to add his e-mail users (mostly aliases to other
e-mail addresses) on both accounts, so that when he makes his
choice, the server of his choice is ready to go, when we move the
domain to the new linux of vps3 account.
When I try to add e-mail addresses in CPX, I can only add e-mail
addresses for a domain, that CPX "knows" is on the server. When I
"Add Domain" I only get the choice to add the domain (which will
become the main domain on the server) as a virtual host. I don't
want this for the website...
So what I did:
I edited /usr/local/etc/cpx.conf (yes I know the file warns you not
to...) and changed the all the temp domain tags (vps3.client.com)
back to the client's main domain name (client.com). Next I
restarted the server, and voila... I can add e-mail addresses for
the domain client.com ,and the website will be in /www/htdocs
(Where I want it).
Is there anything wrong with this approach?
Slightly off topic:
If anybody of the CPX team is reading this... why is there not a
simple add domain function, that adds a domain, but not as a
virtual host? Surely I'm not the only one, with multiple domains,
aimed at /www/htdocs?
Kind regards,
Fred
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