Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3: swapping /home/sites/home with /home/sites/site6

["Rob" <dillybar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

we had a similar situation, here's how i fixed it (on a Raq4)...

basically, i had www.blah1.com, which was the primary site in /home/sites/home but contained
nothing, and www.blah2.com which was in /home/sites/site7.   i didnt want blah1.com, and i wanted
blah2.com to be the primary site.

-i copied the whole /home/sites/site7 directory to /home/site7
-then i printed the userlist for blah2.com from the control panel.
-next i removed (deleted) site7 from with the control panel
-then i deleted the contents of /home/sites/home/web and copied the contents of /home/site7/web to
/home/sites/home/web
-next i manually added all the users to blah1.com (home) with the control panel
-then i copied the contents of /home/site7/users/username/web to /home/sites/home/users/username/web
for each user that had files stored there being sure to retain permissions
-finally, i changed the host/domain of the primary site (www.blah1.com) to www.blah2.com

also, if you have any cgi scripts that refer to the absolute path you'll need to edit them.
also, you'll have to let your users know their new password, and to go change it back to whatever
they want

hope that helps

-Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Ferwerda" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] RAQ3: swapping /home/sites/home with /home/sites/site6


> I''m trying to help someone who has a RAQ3 which had www.blah1.com as the primary site. This
resulted in /home/sites/www.blah1.com being a symbolic link to /home/sites/home.  I've got another
site on the box set up in /home/sites/www.blah2.com which is a symbolic link to /home/sites/site6.
www.blah1.com was moved to another server and the an ip address was obtained for www.blah2.com.
>
> Currently www.blah2.com is the primary web site on the box and /home/sites/home/web is empty.
>
> When www.blah1.com was moved off the box a new IP address was obtained for www.blah2.com and the
GUI was used to set the new IP as the primary IP address.
>
> A `hostname` shows www.blah1.com not the current www.blah2.com. Mail sent by root on the site
appears to have been sent from "www.blah1.com" based on the username/host in the email even though
it was actually sent from www.blah2.com.
>
> The GUI shows www.blah1.com.blah1.com as the primary site.  www.blah2.com doesn't have any users
defined, while www.blah1.com still does.
>
> I no longer want www.blah1.com to even be on the site.  Can I shut down the web server, swap
/home/sites/home and /home/sites/site6, copy the users directory from www.blah1.com to
www.blah2.com, change the host name and keep running or is it much more complicated than that?
>
> In effect I'm trying to clean up an existing messy situation and don't have the option of wiping
everything clean.
>
> Help?!
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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