Migrating to ISPC3 from other panels (here: plesk)

[Croydon]

Thank you. I uploaded the first, incomplete version to svn and added the task details and dependencies to the bugtracker.

[teves]

Does that mean there is a (at least partly) working way to migrate from Plesk to ISPConfig3?
Is this available to the public? If so, where can I find it?

regards, Tom

[till]

The ISPConfig 3 repository is freely accessible:

svn://svn.ispconfig.org/ispconfig3/trunk/

[Croydon]

Please keep in mind that it is far from finished.
Databases and some other features are not yet migrated, so it will take a while until it is usable.

[teves]

Hi Marius,

thanks for the warning, but that's ok with me. If only the annoying and error-prone work of copying resellers, clients, etc. would done automatically, it would be a great achievement. So I am very willing to try...

I have no idea how to enable your plesk migration into a running ispconfig3 though. Is there a howto somewhere?

Thank you, Tom

[Croydon]

Originally Posted by teves

Hi Marius,

thanks for the warning, but that's ok with me. If only the annoying and error-prone work of copying resellers, clients, etc. would done automatically, it would be a great achievement. So I am very willing to try...

I have no idea how to enable your plesk migration into a running ispconfig3 though. Is there a howto somewhere?

Thank you, Tom

This is only implemented in svn, not in stable version of ispconfig.
Do not use it on you production installation, as it might crash.

First step:
Create a (read only) database user on your plesk database.

Second step:
Update your ispconfig install to the latest svn version
/usr/local/ispconfig/server/scripts/update_from_svn.sh

Third step:
As admin in your ispconfig interface got to "tools" -> Import plesk.

Fouth step:
Enter the plesk database details (options below are non-functional, yet).
Submit the form and pray

[teves]

hmm....

I'd rather not install an unstable version, but on the other hand it is not a productive system at the moment. And what is more: it is virtualized and I cound make a copy beforehand.

So if i did the svn update, will I be able to update to a release version of ispconfig afterwards?
Then I'd do the svn update, import from plesk and afterwards do a 'normal' update.

Would that be possible?

[Croydon]

I would not recommend doing this... it might mess up your installation switching like that.

You could try to apply this on a copy of your installation just to check if the plesk import would work for you at all.

[teves]

OK, I'll give you a small feedback on my first attempt:

I followed your small howto... I'll just tell you all the issues that occurred to me; please don't take it as criticism. :-)

First issue is: you don't get any feedback of the GUI. At first I had a typo in my server address and did not get a warning (ping test or so).
When I corrected it and the script finally started, I had no clue it did (beacause no progress/activity is shown).
So I also did not know when it was finished, and if any errors had occurred (is there a log for it?)

When I considered the migration finished after several minutes, the following had been done:
- Resellers imported
- Clients imported
- dns zones imported
- Domains and Aliasdomains imported
- Subdomains imported as 'normal' domain (like in your description)
- mail domains created, but not a single mailbox, redirect or alias
- no ftp users created

I did not check everything in detail yet (like limits for users) though.

Concerning the sequence of tasks, does this indicate the script has stopped because of an error?

regards, Tom

[Croydon]

First of all: Thanks for the feedback, I know there's no progress indicator or anything like that, not needed for development phase
I plan to split the process to a few steps just to avoid running into php execution time limits or something like that.

If you get an error during the process it should either be in the syslog/web log (if it is a php error) or on the interface (db error). I have not yet come to the point where I needed further error info because the import steps are not ready, yet.

As you state that you got no ftp user import, mail accounts cannot be created because they come after ftp. Either there was en error in dns import or ftp user import I think.