A tool to migrate an Addon to its Own Full Account please? [Case 8970]

[Prism329]

I've got to get this going (my wife's domain is listed under my account, and I've got to get her onto her own dedicated IP/SSL certificate). The email (IMAP, two accounts) are the only thing holding this up.

If someone can point me in the right direction where I can get the email accounts moved WITHOUT losing any file attatchments (IMAPCOPY lost all of her attachments the last time we moved), that would be great. (I probably should have started this in a different thread, huh?)

[Metro2]

We are just doing some due-diligence as part of exploring what this functionality will eventually "look like." While the concept is simple, there are technical issues to be concerned with to ensure the feature meets our quality standards (e.g. did we avoid breaking anyone's forwarders, what about databases being properly handled etc.). I may not have any more notable updates for a while since this part of the process does tend to take a while.

Good to hear this hasn't been forgotten. I definitely understand due-diligence and a feature taking time, absolutely.

But since it's already been over 16 months since cPanel stated that work on a feature to "move an addon domain out into it's own account" I guess some of us are getting a bit ansty / wondering what's happening with it. I'm at the point with my hosting where this feature is becoming a necessity so naturally I'm going to be keeping an eye on this thread.

A feature to move an Addon domain out into it's own account would be truly great and truly appreciated.

If it happened to be taken a step further, say, a feature that let's us click the change the roles of domains in an account (Make the Master an Addon and the Addon the Master... or some derivitive thereof) then of course that would be a huge bonus and would ultimately make the work/manilpulation on finicky customer accounts so much easier..

BUT, just having the one basic feature of moving an addon domain out into it's own account would be huge (for me anyway) and I look forward to the day that feature appears! Due-diligence and all, it's got to be prety soon right? It's been such a long time...

[HostT]

What's the status of this? Has anything come of it? I'm getting tired of having to do all this manually! Especially with how much i pay in cPanel licensing fees this should be something included absolutely.

I understand that cPanel implements addon domains and subdomains differently than Virtualmin does but come on guys, have you not come up with anything in the past couple years? You're the leading hosting control panel in the industry and in the past 2-3 years have not come up with a solution for us yet?

Excuse me if i sound upset but i spend $500 a month on cpanel licenses...i feel like this is something that should have been handled a LONG time ago.

[ckh]

I really don't see an easy solution to this. Maybe in the case of a straight html site, but, if there's a php script there that uses a database and crons, the scripts would most likely be broken until the configuration files are changed with the new username, paths will need to be changed and what if the paths are stored in the db when the script is configured?

Highly complicated and I would imagine impossible to do correctly in every scenario.

Normally, if the client wants to a new cPanel account from an addon domain I tell them they or their programmer will need to do it or charge for the move.

[SoftDux]

Can we please get an update from cPanel staff about this long-awaited feature?

[cPanelDavidG]

Can we please get an update from cPanel staff about this long-awaited feature?

Basically, we're working on the potential snags on this as well as different ways people may want to use this feature. For example, this feature could include a list of databases a user could select to "migrate to a full account" since not all databases in a cPanel account may be in use by a specific domain.

This feature is receiving attention of our developers and has been given a higher priority level than most feature requests. Given the amount of effort needed to get this done properly, this may not immediately translate into a swifter delivery - but just thought I'd share that this is something that has our attention.

[dwykofka]

That's good, do it right the first time

[DomineauX]

Thanks David, nice to know it is being actively pursued.

[axaios]

I need to split an account I have transferred from a shared hosting. The account had many add-on domains and I need to split it into multiple accounts. One per domain.

[cPanelDavidG]

This seems to be a duplicate of the existing feature request at A tool to migrate an Addon to its Own Full Account please? [Case 8970] - so I am going to merge these threads so you can receive updates as this becomes implemented.

[monarobase]

For the databases, this is how I would do it :

If the server doesn't have a latest database tweak that allows naming without user name then a warning message should inform us in WHM that all the config files must be changed, this is not much work compared to the actual move and most users are capable of doing this them selves.

If the server does have the database tweak then I don't see their being a problem with the database…

For the FTP accounts, all users would have to be renamed to @newdomain.com

Do you have an idea about how far off the true virtualhost for add-on domains feature is ? I believe that some of the work needed has been done for the IPv6 integration, so if this feature was integrated in the near future, maybe it could help quite a lot towards the integration of this new feature request…

[cPanelDavidG]

For the databases, this is how I would do it :

If the server doesn't have a latest database tweak that allows naming without user name then a warning message should inform us in WHM that all the config files must be changed, this is not much work compared to the actual move and most users are capable of doing this them selves.

If the server does have the database tweak then I don't see their being a problem with the database…

For the FTP accounts, all users would have to be renamed to @newdomain.com

With database names, that is true. With database ownership though, only one cPanel user can own a database, and this feature will essentially be splicing 1 user into 2 users - so we'd still need a screen (or some other mechanism) to determine who should own the database.

Do you have an idea about how far off the true virtualhost for add-on domains feature is ? I believe that some of the work needed has been done for the IPv6 integration, so if this feature was integrated in the near future, maybe it could help quite a lot towards the integration of this new feature request…

I don't have an ETA yet on that feature.

[lbeachmike]

I would like to check in and add a +1 for add-on domain portability.

One of cpanel's greatest strengths is in the overall portability of accounts. However, that strength does not exist once the domain is an add-on domain.

I look forward to seeing this functionality added, so that add-on domains can be moved between accounts or migrated between master and/or add-on.

I understand there might be some challenges backing into the current architecture, but hopefully the wizard cpanel developers can pull it off.

In general, if a human can do it manually, a bit of code can do it.

Thanks.

Mike

[adishpatel]

+1 for this feature.

Can we please have some update regarding the development please? It takes quite some effort to move 100 addon domains out of an account and create them as master domains under a reseller. If there is something which can do it automated within WHM or via cPanel, it would save a lot of the proud geek's time to spend it out on someone/thing else :P

[cPanelDavidG]

This is not planned to be part of 11.32 (whose feature set has essentially been frozen in preparation for release), 11.34 nor 11.36. This puts the anticipated ETA beyond the end of calendar year 2011.