transferring account with same name as other
I have a server with the account xyz for xyz.com. When we transferred it there we left the old account on the old server and tied it to a subdomain in order to use it as a dev server. So essentially the same account exists on two different servers. Now we need to move the old dev account to the same server as the live production account.
What I am concerned about is to know how cpanel will deal with all of the databases, etc. since moving the dev account to the live server when they both have the same account name would screw up all of their databases or worse yet overwrite them during the transfer since both accounts use the same database names.
Is there any safe way to move this dev account back and what will it do to the databases it moves over?
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Hey there! There isn't going to be a good way to handle that without renaming the old account. Since it's the developer account would you just be able to rename it?
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I can rename the dev account but how will that affect the databases? What I mean is if both accounts right now have DB's named accountname_db1 and I change the account name of the dev account to newaccountname will that change the db to newaccountname_db1? If not, then how does the server handle it if there are two databases both with the name accountname_db1?
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When you update the username in WHM >> Modify an Account, there is a box that is checked by default that lets you update the database prefixes and database user prefixes.
so that work gets handled automatically for you.
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Okay. Thank you for the help.
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You're very welcome!
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