I have a few domains with hyphens in them. When the transfer goes through everything seems to work except the last part when it tries to reset the password. The wwwacct reports an invalid username because it is looking for a username with the hyphen included. Any ideas under the gun to get these transferred.
Sounds like a bug in the transfer code. Unless you can use /scripts/pkgacct and /scripts/restorepkg successfully, you're probably going to need to log a ticket with cPanel to get it fixed. Do make sure that you have cPanel updated to the latest version of the tree you're using on both servers as I do remember fixes going in for hyphened domains in the recent past.
Domain with hyphen problem
I also just ran into the domain with hyphen error.
In my case, the username also contains a hyphen. When CPanel creates the new username, it drops the hyphen. Then it tries to locate the username, including the hyphen and not finding a match.
I also just ran into the domain with hyphen error.
In my case, the username also contains a hyphen. When CPanel creates the new username, it drops the hyphen. Then it tries to locate the username, including the hyphen and not finding a match.
ditto
I can also confirm this problem is occuring on a fully updated cPanel install (WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.8.1-S114) where the username has a hypen.
ie. user-nam
The backup seems to complete fine on the original server but attempting to restore the backup results in the account being renamed from user-nam to usernam and the restore fails at the point of setting the password. Example output below...
wwwacct creation finished
passwd: Unknown user name 'user-nam'.
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Account creation failed.. cannot continue..
Running the restore from within WHM or as root from the command line with /scripts/restorepkg user-nam gives the same results as above...
Is there any confirmed resolution or workaround for this problem short of manually backing up the home directory and mysql databases on the old server, creating the new account manually on the new server in WHM, then restoring the seperate home and mysql backups ?? (assuming that will work)
I can also confirm this problem is occuring on a fully updated cPanel install (WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.8.1-S114) where the username has a hypen.
ie. user-nam
The backup seems to complete fine on the original server but attempting to restore the backup results in the account being renamed from user-nam to usernam and the restore fails at the point of setting the password. Example output below...
wwwacct creation finished
passwd: Unknown user name 'user-nam'.
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<legend><b>Transfer Error</b></legend>
<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#dddddd" class="brick">
<tr><td>
Account creation failed.. cannot continue..
Running the restore from within WHM or as root from the command line with /scripts/restorepkg user-nam gives the same results as above...
Is there any confirmed resolution or workaround for this problem short of manually backing up the home directory and mysql databases on the old server, creating the new account manually on the new server in WHM, then restoring the seperate home and mysql backups ?? (assuming that will work)
Only Solution I Found
Only solution I was able to find was to modify the username in whm and get rid of the hyphens. Then do the transfer. Not a great solution if you have a bunch with hyphens also not somehting you want to tell clients. Luckily didn't have too many plus know all clients well enough that was able to smooth over.
Only solution I was able to find was to modify the username in whm and get rid of the hyphens. Then do the transfer. Not a great solution if you have a bunch with hyphens also not somehting you want to tell clients. Luckily didn't have too many plus know all clients well enough that was able to smooth over.
Alternate solution anyone ?
We are trying to do a site transfer from a server we have no control over and changing the username simply isn't a practical option...
Does anyone know of any other way it can be rectified short of manually transferring everything ? ie. another way of restoring the data from the tar.gz backup file ?
We are trying to do a site transfer from a server we have no control over and changing the username simply isn't a practical option...
Does anyone know of any other way it can be rectified short of manually transferring everything ? ie. another way of restoring the data from the tar.gz backup file ?
