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=ChAoS= · #1 29th August 2010, 13:17

Hi, I installed ispconfig following the howto tutorial "perfect server ubuntu 10.04 on a remote dedicated server. As a noob it seemed the best way to get apache/mail etc up and running. I then installed my ipb board and started my forum.

Only after did i realise that by default my provider formatted the 1T hdd so that "file system" installed on a 10gig partition and the other 900 odd gig was the /home directory. When i installed my forum i saw it was installed in /var/www and so was limited to what was left of the 10gig file system partition. Also any other sites i create install in that partition.

After doing some reading it seems i cannot expand the file system partition and if i want to move it to a larger partition i need to use the install disc which is not an option.

So is there anyway i can tell ispconfig to point to another location?

I made an exact replica of /var/www in /home/www and edited my sites enabled files to point to this but it seems that ispconfig is still looking for my sites in /var/www.

I hope this makes sense as all i really want is more space for my forum/other sites etc. I hope this can be done or there is a simple solution i haven't found yet or its back to the drawing board and reformat time.

Thanks for any help =ChAoS=

till · #2 29th August 2010, 13:31

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So is there anyway i can tell ispconfig to point to another location?

I made an exact replica of /var/www in /home/www and edited my sites enabled files to point to this but it seems that ispconfig is still looking for my sites in /var/www.

I hope this makes sense as all i really want is more space for my forum/other sites etc. I hope this can be done or there is a simple solution i haven't found yet or its back to the drawing board and reformat time.

This was not a good isea as /var/www must be the root directory of all websites as /var/www is hard compiled into apache and every other directory will cause a securitey exception in apache when you activate suexec. So please undo all changes that you did.

There is a much easier solution for your problem, you just swap the content and remount /home as /var. Please see here for detailed instructions:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...50&postcount=6

=ChAoS= · #3 29th August 2010, 13:44

Thanks for the reply. Can this be done with ispconfig already installed only the tutorial seems to imply ispconfig isn't installed yet?

Thanks =ChAoS=

till · #4 29th August 2010, 14:38

Yes, this can be done when ispconfig is installed already.

=ChAoS= · #5 29th August 2010, 15:35

Sorry but i have one last question ...

It seems to my inexperienced linux mind that my /home directory would then be 10gig? If this is so, would it be possible to just gpart my current 900gig /home in half and name/mount the second half and copy /var to there?

Thanks for all your help till =ChAoS=