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[sorojchi]

Hello,

If I have have an webhosting account set at WHM (I am a reseller): abc.com

A month later, the owner of abc.com decides to change his domain to xyz.com but doesn´t want to upload his website, nor he wants to keep his old abc.com domain.

Is there anyway to just change the domain for that account at WHM so that the customer would keep all of his files without having to create a new account and upload them?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[probonic]

In WHM, if you select "Modify an account" on the left, and select the existing domain name, there is a textbox on there for the domain name that you can change.

Just change that and click on Save, and hey presto

[sorojchi]

Thanks for your help, it worked just great.
Cheers.

[xlr8ed]

Originally posted by probonic
In WHM, if you select "Modify an account" on the left, and select the existing domain name, there is a textbox on there for the domain name that you can change.

Just change that and click on Save, and hey presto

I did just that, changed domain.com to domain.info for a friend that I host, now he gets this error, any ideas on fixing this?

After I changed domain.com to domain.info, he re-hosted domain.com back on his home server. For the record, I can email his domain.com account just fine from any email address other then what is on my server.

Attempt 1
lithium:~ # telnet domain.info 25
Trying 209.67.x.x...
Connected to domain.info.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-host.myserver.net ESMTP Exim 4.42 #1 Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:33:53 -0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
ehlo
250-host.myserver.net Hello [24.171.x.x]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
YnJvYWRjYXN0QHdhbGtlcjEuaW5mbw==
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
cXVhemFy
235 Authentication succeeded
mail from: broadcast@domain.info
250 OK
rcpt to: kevin@domain.com
550-"The recipient cannot be verified. Please check all recipients of this
550 message to verify they are valid."
rcpt to: myfriends@personalaccount.net
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
testing
.
550 Administrative prohibition
quit
221 host.myserver.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.


Attempt 2
Connected to domain.info.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-host.myserver.net ESMTP Exim 4.42 #1 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:43:51
-0500 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport
unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
ehlo domain.info
250-host.myserver.net Hello domain.info [24.171.x.x] 250-SIZE
52428800 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-STARTTLS 250 HELP
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
YnJvYWRjYXN0QHdhbGtlcjEuaW5mbw==
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
cXVhemFy
235 Authentication succeeded
mail from: broadcast@domain.info
250 OK
rcpt to: kevin@domain.com
550-"The recipient cannot be verified. Please check all recipients of
this 550 message to verify they are valid."
rcpt to: myfriends@personalaccount.net
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
subject: Test
this is a test
.
550 Administrative prohibition
quit
221 host.myserver.net closing connection Connection closed by
foreign host.

[xlr8ed]

The old domain "domain.com", was still located in /etc/localdomains. Once I removed the two instances of it, everything worked fine.

[amahmood]

Originally Posted by probonic

In WHM, if you select "Modify an account" on the left, and select the existing domain name, there is a textbox on there for the domain name that you can change.

Just change that and click on Save, and hey presto

Hi

There isn't a "Modify an account" on my WHM, any Idea guys?

[mpoulsen]

Ask your hosting company for it as some (including us) don't allow resellers to make this change.

[P Lemon]

wow thanks for the tutorial it really help me out im new at linux