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ovis · #1 26th February 2006, 18:31

Hello,

I can find enough documentation about a situation i am in:

I want to install the ISP-Config system on a server at home and then when i am ready, go to the big serverfarm and put my nice and newly setup 1U server in the rack.

Wat do i need to chance there?

All the certificates , SSL, POP, IMAP,
The hostname + ip adresses.
Wich configuration files
Mysql things ?

Is there documentation out there that describes this situation?

I think its a common situation that you configure your server at home or in your office, Than go to your colocation and leave youre server there.

So the question is what to change if i move the server to an other place.
Maybe there are things to be changed in the mysql database things i didnt think of.

A step by step route to take.
Maybe someone else allready took this route before, ill be glad to hear.

Thanks in advance

Ovis

hairydog2 · #2 26th February 2006, 18:44

I would set it up with the correct hostname and certificates when it is at home. I would also make sure it uses its final destination IP address as a temporary measure when it is at home.

Though I don't see much point in setting it up at home first. I've never seen any of our servers - or even been within a hundred miles of them!

ovis · #3 26th February 2006, 19:13

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Originally Posted by hairydog2

I would set it up with the correct hostname and certificates when it is at home. I would also make sure it uses its final destination IP address as a temporary measure when it is at home.

Though I don't see much point in setting it up at home first. I've never seen any of our servers - or even been within a hundred miles of them!

Thanks for the quick reply.

Maybe becouce we build the 1U ourself and have to manually install it in the rack of our provider, we install it at home first. The only thing i know is that
the Common Name of a certificate should be the FQDN and maybe it stalles when booting from an other IP.

This probably makes good material for an FAQ, hopefully there more people with this exeperience,

Gr Ovis

falko · #4 26th February 2006, 20:23

You must change the IP address (don't know which distribution you use otherwise I could tell you which file to edit), then have a look at your Apache configuration and at /root/ispconfig/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and replace the IP address if it is in there, also in /etc/postfix/main.cf, then in /etc/proftpd.conf and its included files (some of them have an IP address in their name so you must change the file name, too), and then in the ISPConfig web interface (under Management -> Server -> Settings). You can then check the ISPConfig MySQL database if the old IP address is still in there and replace it, if necessary.

ovis · #5 1st March 2006, 21:45

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Originally Posted by falko

You must change the IP address (don't know which distribution you use otherwise I could tell you which file to edit), then have a look at your Apache configuration and at /root/ispconfig/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and replace the IP address if it is in there, also in /etc/postfix/main.cf, then in /etc/proftpd.conf and its included files (some of them have an IP address in their name so you must change the file name, too), and then in the ISPConfig web interface (under Management -> Server -> Settings). You can then check the ISPConfig MySQL database if the old IP address is still in there and replace it, if necessary.

I made an inventory of the files on the harddisk that contains the ip address
of the installation location. I learned that thats the only thing that differ.

/etc/network/interfaces
/etc/hosts
/etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
/etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf

And now the question : How will named react to a sudden change of IP ?

/var/lib/named/etc/bind/*
/etc/bind/*

Does this happen automagicly

Or do i need to do some CLI magic first ?

falko · #6 1st March 2006, 21:58

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Originally Posted by ovis

And now the question : How will named react to a sudden change of IP ?

/var/lib/named/etc/bind/*
/etc/bind/*

Does this happen automagicly

Or do i need to do some CLI magic first ?

If named has zones with the old IP address, then you must change the IP address there, too, otherwise your domains will point to the old IP address.

hairydog2 · #7 12th October 2006, 23:22

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Originally Posted by falko

You must change the IP address (don't know which distribution you use otherwise I could tell you which file to edit), then have a look at your Apache configuration and at /root/ispconfig/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and replace the IP address if it is in there, also in /etc/postfix/main.cf, then in /etc/proftpd.conf and its included files (some of them have an IP address in their name so you must change the file name, too), and then in the ISPConfig web interface (under Management -> Server -> Settings). You can then check the ISPConfig MySQL database if the old IP address is still in there and replace it, if necessary.

The server I'm running ISPConfig on has moved to a different rack, and has been assigned a new range of IP addresses. For now, the old IPs are being routed to the new location, but that will have to change soon.

I have three IPs to use. I want to use one for most of the public-facing sites, one for ISPConfig admin, running on the normal https port becasue port 81 gets blocked by too many places, and the other for a public-facing site that needs its own SSL certificate.

I decided to try moving just one site to the new IP to start with. I thought that I would be able to do it this way:

1. Add the new IP addresses on ISPConfig | Management | Server/Settings | Server/IP List

2. ISPConfig | ISP Manager | <website> | Basis | IP Address | choose the relevant IP from the drop-down list.

3. ISPConfig | DNS Manager | <domain name> | Domain | new.ip.address

4. ISPConfig | DNS Manager | <domain name> | Records | IP-adresse | new.ip.address

But I've done all that, and it doesn't work. The connection times out.

What should I be doing?