Moving ISPconfig

[till]

Do I need to make a backup of the following mysql databases:
mysql
information_schema

The "mysql" database has to be included in the backup too.

The question is that, lets say the main server goes down. Can I use this procedure to restore the backup into the secondary server?

Yes, this should work. But you should test the procedure for your installation. Instead of moving the data in the tar.gz files, you can sync the data between the servers e.g. every 15 minutes with rsync.

[Rocky]

Till,

You are absolutely correct and I will implement rsync. However, I don't have the time to do this as I'm leaving on my vacation.

So for now, I just have to hope that nothing happens while I'm gone. As for data changing, we pretty much have static data so nothing really changes unless we change it.

Having this backup just makes me feel a bit as ease.

Thanks again,


Rocky

[zeeman]

I've got a little quasion about postfixs transport:

Originally Posted by falko

echo "smtp  *:[<IP address of new server>]" >> /etc/postfix/transport
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

I googled a little bit around to get to know what this line really does.
Everywhere I found the example

domain.tld smtp:[<IP address of new server>]
.domain.tld smtp:[<IP address of new server>]

So I'm a little bit confused which to use.
I want to forward all mails from server A to server B. A and B use the same configuration (same users, uids, guids, webs and so on)

Thanks for the good explanation at the start of this thread!

[falko]

Use the first line if you have email addresses like user@domain.tld; use the second line if your email addresses look like this: user@sub.domain.tld.

[pepo]

Last nigth I used the quick howto of Falco to move my ISPconfig installation to a new server. (Thanks for this free support!)

After I was done I started testing and found something strange. Some PHP pages where blank, others showed parts php-code and there where pages that just worked.

Also a quick phpinfo page turned out blank.

Today I was playing around with one of the pages that didn't work right. After a while I had a bright idea. I changed <? for <?php in my phpinfo page and it worked. A little googleing tought me that in PHP 5.2.? short tags ar discouraged.

Now I was stuck with lots of pages that didn't work. The easy method would be to change httpd.comf settings to allow short tags, but I desided to figure out how to update all php pages with the right opening tag.

Here is a little script that loops through all the php pages in a directory and replaces <? with <?php.

#!/bin/bash
for fl in *.php; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/<? /<?php /g' $fl.old > $fl
rm -f $fl.old
done

I found a little drawback when you have both <? and <?php openingtags. I should figure out regular expressions to solve this. So I first ran the script twice, first like this:

#!/bin/bash
for fl in *.php; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/<?/<?php/g' $fl.old > $fl
rm -f $fl.old
done

and than

#!/bin/bash
for fl in *.php; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/<?phpphp/<?php /g' $fl.old > $fl
rm -f $fl.old
done

Maybe this script can be the start of a script to run through all the directories in /src/www, but that will be one for another time.

Hope this script can help someone.

Greetz,

Pepo

[Leszek]

That's useful pepo.
You can also manipulate php_flag short_open_tag Off|On in a .htaccess file to allow execution of php scripts started with <?php or just <?.

[azidtripz]

Hello everyone,

first i would like to state that ISPConfig is a fantastic bit of software.

though i am having some issues with moving to server B

here is my setup

Server A and B both have the same linux version and all software on both is up to date (same versions of mysql, php, ispconfig and so on)

i move everything other all files and databases and it all seams fine, in myphpadmin i look and all the databases are there, when i log into ISPConfig and goto the database section on my of my websites the database section doesnt show up, and then when i log back into myphpadmin and click on one of the databases from that website it then dissapears :S, i have no idea what could be doing thing but its proberly something easy to fix,

[falko]

How did you copy over the ISPConfig database from server A to B?

[azidtripz]

the first time i i just exported all the databases using phpmyadmin and then imported them on server B, though i couldn't add add the missing info out of database 'mysql' because it wouldn't show up, but existed, so to same me some more trouble, i zipped /var/lib/mysql, and then extracted it on server B, and all databases were showing fine until i went into ispconfig and into option of any sites...

[till]

You can try to download this version of ISPConfig and run a update on your system:

http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/I...-stable.tar.gz