cPanel Website Transfer – Part 1 – Changing an Add-on Domain to a Primary Domain

Converting an Add-on Domain to a Primary Domain

Skill Level : Beginner

In this post, I will explain how to convert an add-on domain to a primary domain. Considering a complex case, lets consider the primary domain should be a different one from the one that holds the Add-on domain.

Pre Requisites

Server Platform : Linux

User requires     : cPanel and SSH access (root)

This is a Site transfer. Also both the sites I’ve mentioned here is on same server.

Case

The Add-on Domain under a website has to be converted as its Primary Domain. If you have a Full backup, its another case. I’ll explain it in another post.

Solution

Lets consider the Add-on Domain is addon.com under the user admin and the document root of the add-on domain is :

/home/admin/public_html/addon

Now it should be transferred as the Primary Domain

* Using WHM Create a New account primary.com, the document root is then say /home/primary
We’ve to transfer the whole data from /home/admin/public_html/addon.com to /home/primary/public_html first.

* The Steps will be :

root@server [/home/admin/public_html/addon]# cp -r ./* /home/primary/public_html

This will recursively copy everything inside the PWD to the specified location
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Worried about email migrations and mail syncing – get getmail for the rescue

Most of the hosting providers offer free server migration. The free website migration started as early as 2005, in the industry. But only a few providers offer the email migration for a website transfer involving different control panels. So using getmail is the easiest way to transfer emails. All we need is to create the email account in the new server and configure the getmail to transfer the emails.

Download getmail at http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/getmail-4.20.3.tar.gz

wget http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/getmail-4.20.3.tar.gz
tar xzf getmail-4.20.3.tar.gz
cd getmail*
python setup.py install

Now you have to create a getmailrc , the getmail configuration file inside the home folder of the user. getmailrc need not be inside the home directory. You have to create the folder .getmail where getmail keeps a log of the emails retrieved based on each configuration file you may have.You can have multiple destination and retriever sections in one single getmailrc as well.

I must say getmail is so much flexible and rightly coded when the mailsync or imapsync didn’t do their job right or up to the mark. And is an excellent replacement for fetchmail. It supports POP, POP3S, IMAP4 and IMAPS, and also can store the mails retrieved in mbox or maildir format at the destination.

An extremely simple getmailrc file will look like this

[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPRetriever
server = mail.domain.com
username = direct@domain.com
password = direct

[destination]
type = Maildir
path = /home/cpusername/mail/.direct@domain_com/

The file format should be pretty self-explanatory. You’re telling getmail to fetch your email from server, mail.domain.com by logging to it using the mentioned username and password. The destination section mentions where to store the retrieved email and in which format (Maildir or mbox or mboxrd). Make sure that the cur, new and tmp are there inside those folder though. However getmail may create those folders automatically though.

Finally to get this going, just run “getmail –rcfile getmailrc”

Once you run it, assuming that the getmailrc is properly configured, you will be welcomed by a below output.

getmail version 4.20.3
Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon.  Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.
SimpleIMAPRetriever:direct@domain.com@mail.domain.com:143:
 msg    1/3983 (299328 bytes) delivered
 msg    2/3983 (2815 bytes) delivered

How to install 32 bit and 64 bit applications on 64 bit Ubuntu OS

Earlier, with Drapper Drake , you only had to install ia32libs. But after that, may be they decided not to release for future versions, no more release. Hackers always find a way round to get their thing done and that exactly what happened with this as well. A bash file was written and released to the public available at http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/

I recently had to use this frequently and thought about mentioning it. In last two days, I had two such requirements as well. Here in India, Tata Docomo’s USB installation binary, will work only on i386 linux boxes. I would admit that that itself is an achievement But I had to get it working on a x64 architecture as well. And it was complaining about libqt and a few other 32 bit packages. dkpg’s –force-architecture option was also not working because of dependency issue.

This also helped me install a Task Management Software as well, http://codea-dev.com/gtd/download/linux/

Below text is copied from Ubuntu Forum’s. Author’s original post can be found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790

getlibs works on:

• All Ubuntu and Debian systems
• Debian or Ubuntu based distributions (best to use the package name)

Tip: To install a 32-bit debian package for a program (not a library!) use

sudo dpkg -i --force-all package_name.deb

Usage Examples:

getlibs on a program to download all missing libraries:

getlibs /usr/bin/skype

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Use getlibs to install a 32-bit library using the library name:

getlibs -l libogg.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0

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Use getlibs to install a 32-bit library using the package name:

getlibs -p libqt4-core libqt4-gui

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Install a 32-bit library file (.deb):

getlibs -i ~/i386_library_1.deb

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Download and install a 32-bit library file (.deb):

getlibs -w http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sdl-image1.2/libsdl-image1.2_1.2.5-3_i386.deb