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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How to migrate IIS6 web.config to IIS7

If you are using custom httpHandlers or httpModules, you would need to
run the migration command below.

C:\> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD.EXE migrate config "domain_name.com/virtual_directory"
Successfully migrated section "system.web/httpModules".
Successfully migrated section "system.web/httpHandlers".

Now if you are going to migate the web.config inside the WEB_ROOT directory itself and not inside any virtual directory don’t miss a forward slash, / after the domain name.

eg:

C:\> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD.EXE migrate config "domain_name.com/"
Successfully migrated section "system.web/httpModules".
Successfully migrated section "system.web/httpHandlers".

Otherwise you may get an error like below,

ERROR ( message:Cannot find APP object with identifier “domainame.com”. )

A good article to refer is available at http://blogs.msdn.com/tmarq/archive/2007/08/30/iis-7-0-asp-net-pipelines-modules-handlers-and-preconditions.aspx