Mass account creation?

[FarSerenade]

Hi,

I'm purchasing a hosting company, and his system right now was built inhouse, so we're trying to figure out a way to transfer them to cPanel. So my question is, what is required to script account creation, and mail setup? If someone has, or could quickly create a script, to create a bunch of accounts given a text file with account names, passwords etc, just to show how it's done, we could probably script something how ourselves.

If you can help, let me know.

 

[stoo2000]

Have a look in the cPanel Docs on the site for XML-API

 

[FarSerenade]

Okay, so you could execute more than one of those lines right?

 

[stoo2000]

You'd code a loop in so the script would cycle through the data you provide and create an account for each set of data.

 

[cPanelDavidG]

Email setup would be done through an API2 function, which can be called via the XML-API. A forum search for doaddpop should yield a few useful results for you .

 

[FarSerenade]

I found these two things. Good or bad?

http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/create-cpanel-whm-account.php
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/cpanel-create-email-account.php

 

[cPanelDavidG]

I found these two things. Good or bad?

http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/create-cpanel-whm-account.php
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/cpanel-create-email-account.php

Neither script uses our APIs therefore are subject to breaking without notice. I recommend informing the developer to use our APIs or finding a script that makes use of the APIs to ensure long-term functionality.

 

[stoo2000]

Also an interesting note would be you would still need to code your script to cycle through calling those ones, so it would pretty much be easier for you to start from scratch.

 

[FarSerenade]

I'm sure it would be, but I'm far from being a coder. And I don't really have enough money to hire one at this point.

 

[brianoz]

It should be possible to do this in a few hours, or you could work up some sort of loop around the other scripts. No matter how you do it, it's going to be messy in the extreme to import that many domains; the fact that it's not under a control panel should reduce the purchase price.

 

[markfrompf]

It should be possible to do this in a few hours, or you could work up some sort of loop around the other scripts. No matter how you do it, it's going to be messy in the extreme to import that many domains; the fact that it's not under a control panel should reduce the purchase price.

You and I think alike! Many people think they're creating an asset by having someone code up a custom panel, but it's actually a terrible idea in many ways.