Manually change IP address?

Scott Galambos

• February 24, 2025 13:35

I am working on a disaster recovery process for my cPanel server.  I will restore my ESXi VM and run it under VMware workstation.  I would like to know how to manually switch the root IP address the server runs under manually.  Because when I restore I cannot just use the same IP address as it may conflict with the real server when I test things.  I can change the NIC, but if I can never login to WHM to change the IP for multiple reasons.  Where do I do this manually?  So all services will function but just on a different IP?  Is this possible?  I just want to change like x.x.x.5 to x.x.x.6 and have the entire server still work.

Thanks.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 24, 2025 15:00

  Hey there!  This isn't an intended function of the cPanel tools - the main IP address is stored in so many places that it isn't practical to do this work.  There are no command line or API tools to handle this.

  I would recommend setting up the server on a secondary IP address, making sure everything works properly, and then switching the IP using the typical WHM tools.

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