Re: [cobalt-users] Migration From RAQ4r to RAQ550?

[Brian Rahill <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:14 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > AHH,, nevermind.. I though I had found the link but I did not.
> >
> > Does anyone have the link to the correct package for the RAQ550?
> >
>     ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/beta
>     works good!
>     get the dnsImport also if the RaQ4 does DNS

A few issues that we ran into when importing websites from the 4r to the 
550 (hopefully this will help someone).

1.  If you have webalizer stats that saves the stats in the users folder 
(i.e. www.domainname.com/~stats/) then these will not be migrated. You'll 
need to copy them into the web root temporarily for them to migrate 
correctly (i.e. cp -R /home/sites/www.domain.com/users/stats 
home/sites/www.domains.com/web/stats)

2.  Neomail address books aren't saved (as they don't exist within the site 
structure) but you can recover them from the old machine.

3.  Our 550 was set to not follow symlinks so some of our symlinks were 
broken until we modified Apache with the FollowSymLinks directive in an 
.htaccess file.

4.  Chilisoft on the 550 is set so that includes such as 
"../../include.asp" won't work - you have to either modify Chilisoft or 
change the way you call the include.

5.  If users on your box have any capital letters on their email aliases 
then NONE of their aliases will be migrated.  You'll have to recreate the 
aliases on the new box.

6.  If users on the new box have the same username as ones on the old box 
then the matching user from the old box will not be imported.

7.  In some cases the email forwarding for some users didn't migrate.  It 
did for most users, but some it didn't and we couldn't figure out when/why 
it failed sometimes.

We moved one site at a time so we didn't experience any downtime (make sure 
you turn down the TTL on the domain in advance of moving it) and all in all 
it was a VERY smooth process.  The CMU is a great tool.  Good luck!

Brian


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