Hello. I have a couple of accounts on a server which has CPanel4 as the Control Panel. However, I have to move these accounts to a new server with the same company(long story) This new server also has CPanel4 installed. Is there anyway I can transfer the sites from one to another automatically?

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This sounds like a good support question to ask your provider.

Yeah I asked them, they said I had to do it manually.... I'm sure I read somewhere that said CPanel allowed you to do something like this, but then again I'm probably wrong.

provider then they should be able to move them for you using the WHM move function. You do have to have root access to do it.
The other option is to use the backup function in cpanel download the backup zip to your hard drive then do a restore on the other server form your hard drive.

Monte

Hi Monte, Thanks for your help, but will the second way also make a backup of the mail, ftp and subdomain settings too or just the raw files?

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but you will lose passwords and users on MySql databases so you will have to go back into to each account and add the user and password back in manually. Other than that everything goes over the same. For sub domains you have to backup the alias files also.

Monte

Easiest way is to use the Move feature.. it works well... :-)

Sean

Originally posted by Sean
Easiest way is to use the Move feature.. it works well... :-)

Sean

I can second that. I recently had to move accounts from one server to another and the move feature of WHM was a life-saver.

In the absence of a root access you can use wget or tarballs to move the sites

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Since I don't have many accounts I'm just going to use the backup zip feature and reupload that. But my question is if the sites have databases and other things, does the account on server 1 have to have th same username/password as the new account on server 2?

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But my question is if the sites have databases and other things, does the account on server 1 have to have th same username/password as the new account on server 2?[/B]

Yes maybe. I have a rough idea that the anser is yes, because I think I read it somewhere before on WHT, but I'm completely sure. I'd suggest you wait a see if somebody says yes in backup favour for me.

it does. The user name has to be the same the password can be different but you will have to reset the passwords on all the accounts you move once you upload them so everything will sync.

Again you will lose the passwords and users in the MySQL databases moving them by hand. You will have to go in and add the user and passwords to access the databases.

Monte