Moving from dedicated to shared cpanel - any scripts to do all / some of the install tasks ?

Question

Hi,

I have a few hundred phpld sites to move - each has its own cpanel, ( & the target may have shared cpanel) & I can do a full cpanel backup on the original server, but I don't have whm on the current host - the backups are fairly easy to organize but the installs so far means picking through files & setting up db's & mail etc by hand -

I am thinking there ought to be an easier ie scripted way to do the installs or at least some parts - can anyone please suggest something ?

I would like to migrate the stats at the same time

here is a list of tasks (not quite in order - think its near complete ??)

get site name from a file inside the backup create domain create ftp user & password create mail account create mail forward create database create db user & password import db dump create site directory named after domain extract site files to site directory find & replace in site config.php to set up to database import stats to awstats

Thanks

M

Answer 1

Sorry, but if you have a few hundred cPanel accounts on a dedicated server you're going to have to migrate to a host that has at least a reseller service through WHM. You can make individual backups of each of the cPanel accounts then have a host restore them under some master reseller account. I know that http://arvixe.com can do this with their linux reseller plans.

If you want to push a few hundred cPanel accounts into a single cPanel account, you're going to have to write the script yourself.