Migrating the entire WHM to another server

tnycman

• December 28, 2016 13:16

Hi all, I have very little experience with cpanel, and was wondering if there is any way to migrate an entire WHM with all the cpanels and files.. I have about 5-6 users cpanels that i like to move to another server, they have websites with databases in it. Is there an idiot proof to do this migration without the possibility of messing it up ? I'm a tech savvy, just no familiar with Cpanel. Thanks

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  flashweb

  • December 29, 2016 02:20

  You can use Transfer Tool in WHM to transfer site from another cpanel server. Transfer Tool - Documentation - cPanel Documentation Once you transfer, change name servers or login to old server, edit DNS and change to IP of new server.

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 04, 2017 17:38

  Hello, You may also find this document helpful:

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  yesgeek

  • February 03, 2020 17:09

  I tried using the transfer tool and everything seems to have migrated over but the domain is not resolving even after changing the IP address to the new server. Do I need to change the name server? How can I figure out what the new nameservers?

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  yesgeek

  • February 03, 2020 17:19

  TRANSFER: 1 completed, 0 had warnings, and 0 failed. RESTORE: 1 completed, 1 had warnings, and 0 failed. RESTORE: Account "exoticsign": Warnings The original IP address, "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", is not available. The system will use one of your available unused IP addresses instead. "/bin/bash" is not a permitted shell for restricted restore. This account will use the "/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell" shell instead.

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  keat63

  • February 04, 2020 13:07

  are you still having issues. I found this process pretty straight forward. Use something like MX tool box to reveal any dns problems. Is this your own server, do you have bind (dns for name servers) istalled, or are you using and external DND and name server.

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  yesgeek

  • February 05, 2020 14:01

  Everything transferred fine but I'm thinking when GoDaddy setup the name servers they didn't do it properly.

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  yesgeek

  • February 05, 2020 14:27

  I used the transfer tool but the domain is not resolving. It's my own VPN so I have access to WHM and Cpanel. Godaddy did the initial setup for me but I don't think they configured the nameservers. I'm trying to create my own name servers but I would be perfectly fine using godaddy's name servers as well since I'm going to use Cloudflare anyway so I will be pointing the DNS to them. I just want to make sure the site is up before connecting Cloudflare. My Cpanel account has a different IP address than my server. I used this video How to Setup DNS in WHM cPanel on Godaddy but it's still not working.

  	Test	Result
  https://mxtoolbox.com/public/images/statusicons/problem.png	DMARC Record Published	No DMARC Record found	https://mxtoolbox.com/public/images/StatusIcons/info.png More Info
  https://mxtoolbox.com/public/images/statusicons/warning.png	DMARC Policy Not Enabled	DMARC Quarantine/Reject policy not enabled	https://mxtoolbox.com/public/images/StatusIcons/info.png More Info
  https://mxtoolbox.com/public/images/statusicons/ok.png	DNS Record Published	DNS Record found

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  yesgeek

  • February 05, 2020 16:29

  I'm using PowerDNS should I switch to BIND?

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