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

[Paul Ferwerda <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,
        Thanks for the info.  In my case, the primary site is no longer usable from the GUI for some reason.  It shows up as www.blah1.com.blah1.com. It has the delete button greyed out showing that it is the primary site and when I click on it I get a domain not found or some such error.  My guess is that some configuration file someplace has the incorrect name but I wasn't sure where to look.  httpd.conf didn't have the duplicate but I'm not sure where the GUI gets its list of virtual sites from if not from httpd.conf.

        I still may be able to do what you did but I'm going to have to do it a slightly different way.

Thanks,
Paul

At 11:07 PM 11/29/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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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