Hi.

I have to move around 500 domains on a plesk 2.5 server to the new CPanel server.

Have anyone done this before ?
Does the DomainTransfer in WHM works ?
I am getting "timeout" errors on single domain move via WHM.


Any ideas for multiple domains move ?

All help appretiated.



:homer:

I didn't know it was possible to transfer domains from PLESK to cPanel - never tried it but I very much doubt it is possible as the way PLESK and cPanel run is totally different. PLESK uses Qmail, cPanel exim. The control panels are totally different - just a big nitemare transferring - and PLESK doesn't run Webmin which I think is needed to transfer domains so I really do not think this is possible.

If you have root on the cpanel box you can transfer the accounts automatically via WHM. You need root on the plesk box too.

Are you able to ping the box from your cpanel server? There are no firewall rules that would stop the two communicating?

Craig.

When did PLESK get WHM - or am I mistake that you don't need WHM to transfer accounts from PLESK > WHM. I didnt' know it was possible.

and PLESK doesn't run Webmin

webmin isn't part of the plesk install but installing webmin on a plesk box is as easy as rpm -Uvh webmin.rpm and it runs fine side by side as long as you don't use webmin to do tasks that plesk handles in its own sweet way :)

We are just testing some cPanel boxes at present and we will be trying the import a site utility which would be nice if it works.

Can I ask are all 500 sites on one plesk box?

I have root on both the servers.

When I try to move an account from plesk to Cpanel via WHM transfer, this is what I get:

Copying copy script...
Timeout ...
Retrying Copying copy script...
Timeout ...
Retrying Copying copy script...
Timeout ...
Unable to copy script


I can ping both ways btw.


need help !


:homer:

to my limited knowledge on control panels, the whm copy script is for cpanel -> cpanel move...

you have to manually tarball each user dir and then set the email accounts and then forward them one by one and do a mysql dump

This is what I see: {login as root, under 'Transfers'}
Click :Copy an account from another server

Server to copy from (ip or FQDN):
Server root password:
Username to copy:
Give new account an ip address:
Remote Server is:

( ) WHM 4.5+
( ) Pre WHM 4.5
( ) WebPanel
( ) pXa (Pl*sk) 2.0
( ) CI*st/Spectr*


User with su access (only if root ssh login is disabled):
User with su access password:

It says pXa (Pl*sk) 2.0, maybe version 2.5 is still not supported.


:homer:

I have also had servers that the copy would not work on (CPanel to CPanel) - Plesk 2.0 is now available to copy accounts from within WHM. Don't know about 2.5 - check with cpanel.net

Try adding the 2 server IP's to your /etc/hosts.allow on each machine

See if that works for you.

The copying function can copy Plesk accounts.

The timeout is caused by a problem in /etc/resolv.conf I believe, make sure the correct DNS entries are present in resolv.conf. If you think they are, post exactly what you see in resolv.conf....

I never did get to the bottom of cpanel timing out, although had a different error with one server....

See anything wrong with this matt?

domain domain.com
search domain.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
nameserver 66.96.193.2

xxx.xx.xxx.xxx ns1 + ns2 IP's

Cheers

Get rid of the "nameserver 127.0.0.1" line.

Matt

:D Cheers Matt, thought as much.......

Hey, I used the IP instead of the hostname., so it should not be the issue ?

do you meant to say that it tries to do whatever "DNS" functions with the domain being moved before copying ?

server: plesk server IP address
username: domain-username on the plesk server.

:homer:

i have different issue i want to transfer few clients from cpanel to plesk based server.Also there are some SQL databases to be transffered too so let me know how this can be done.I have got a reseller account for it on which i want to move it.

That can work,but plesk 2.5 is a very old version of Plesk
You may wish to search teh cpanel.com forums for that issue
Also some folks at WHT can do teh transfer for $ since in auto mode it can arise the problems

You cannot transfer plesk->cPanel thats why WHM is returning errors.

You will have to copy everything manually.

I suggest you create a new account and rsync over your /home partion and /var/lib/mysql.

Then create all the account in cPanel, you will then have to move the files to the /home account. Remember plesk does not use cPanel format, you will need to redo them all, to match public_html.

Also remember, you will NOT be able to copy emails over due to the different email applications each control panel operates. You also need to know that the mysql database is going to be alot harder to move, since if you move the /var/lib/mysql -> /var/lib/mysql it will not follow cPanel format and therefore will not show up in the customers account even though they can still use the same info as before.

It is a big task and it will take alot of time.

-Scott