how to change the default web directory "/var/www"

[junmin]

hi, i have been running ispconfig for about a month...
but i got a problema now, when i was installing ispconfig, i was thinking that the user's web directories will be /home/, so i give /home the biggest partition!.... so i have to change the default web directory /var/www now...

how can i change it??

i was thinking that,

move all the content of /var/www to a temp directory
creat a directory named www at /home
move all the content of the temp directory to /home/www
remove the /var/www directoy and then
ln -s /var/www /home/www/

is it OK? will it cause any problem?? thanks.

[till]

I recommend the following procedure.

1) the httpd, postfix, pop3,imap and ispconfig service.
2) Move /var/www to /home/www
3) Symlink /var/www to /home/www
4) start ISPConfig:

/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server start

and change the document root under management > server > settings on the web tab.

then execute the following sql statement in the database to update all websites:

update isp_isp_web set status = 'u' where status = '';

Now wait a few minutes until ISPConfig has changed the website config for all sites and start http, pop3, imap and mail daemon again.

[jmroth]

Hmmm... I was trying to change the document root in the web interface for a similar reason, but it did not use the new one I specified, and displayed and used the old one again.
So I changed the document root in the database directly too.

[till]

As you installed your ISPConfig version, did you import the SQL dump manually?

[jmroth]

Originally Posted by till

As you installed your ISPConfig version, did you import the SQL dump manually?

Oh I really don't remember because I'm using it for a long time now.

Anyway, I was just thinking people might not often change their root directory, so maybe a bug has appeared in that piece of code at some time, and went unnoticed so far.

[till]

The problem that you described is normally caused by inserting the sql dump manually during installation as ISPConfig will not be able to save or read any config settings from the management > server settings part.

[jmroth]

So what exactly is the difference when I insert it manually?
Doesn't the ISPconfig installation routine just do a "mysql ... < dump.sql" or alike?

[till]

Originally Posted by jmroth

So what exactly is the difference when I insert it manually?

Your installation is incomplete and all server variables are set to defaults and not to the correct values for your system.

Doesn't the ISPconfig installation routine just do a "mysql ... < dump.sql" or alike?

No, the ISPConfig installer creates records dynamically based on your server configuration. These records are not in the SQL dump.

[jmroth]

How can I actually find out if I imported the SQL dump or let the installer create the stuff?

What should be missing?

[till]

Check if you have a record in the table isp_isp_server with doc_id = 1.