Transfering a domain wihout having full WHM access

[franki]

Hi,
I have a reseller account on a server with WHM/CPanel but I have only reseller privileges, not full access to WHM. I want to transfer my domains to another server of my own (with WHM/CPanel to which I have full access). Is there any way to do the transfer without 'bothering' the owner of the first server? I want to do the transfer by myself. Is that possible?(having only reseller privileges)

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[mmkassem]

Re: Transfering a domain wihout have full WHM access

Originally posted by franki
Hi,
I have a reseller account on a server with WHM/CPanel but I have only reseller privileges, not full access to WHM. I want to transfer my domains to another server of my own (with WHM/CPanel to which I have full access). Is there any way to do the transfer without 'bothering' the owner of the first server? I want to do the transfer by myself. Is that possible?(having only reseller privileges)

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Sure you can ..
If you have Full Server Access on the new server (the server you want to move to) then you can go to:

WHM > Copy an account from another server with account password

And copy each of your accounts under your Reseller Account to the new server.

 

[franki]

Re: Re: Transfering a domain wihout have full WHM access

Originally posted by mmkassem
Sure you can ..
If you have Full Server Access on the new server (the server you want to move to) then you can go to:

WHM > Copy an account from another server with account password

And copy each of your accounts under your Reseller Account.

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Hmm it sounds good!
So I don't need to have full server access to the first (current) server, do I? Only username/password of accounts and full access to the 2nd (new) server.

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[electric]

Will this also copy over any mailing lists, mysql db, etc..?

Thanks!

I imagine we'll then have to re-issue different IP addresses for the reseller nameservers?

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[mmkassem]

You need the username and password for each shared account you want to transfer. And Root access in the new server.

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[franki]

I forgot to say that I mean transferring everything such as web files, emails, passwords, users, mySQL db's, etc. Everything is transferring this way, right?

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by electric
Will this also copy over any mailing lists, mysql db, etc..?

Thanks!

It should copy DB but I am not sure about Mailing list (I did not try to transfer an account with a mailman list)

If you want to transfer a Reseller Account:

1. Create a shared account in your new server and give me reseller prev.

2. Transfer the shared accounts of this reseller.

3. Change Ownership to this reseller.

Remember Packages won't be transferred so you will have to re-create them.


Transfered Accounts IP will change to the shared IP of the new server.

I imagine we'll then have to re-issue different IP addresses for the reseller nameservers?

Of course .. because the old IPs are not assigned to the new server.

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by franki
I forgot to say that I mean transferring everything such as web files, emails, passwords, users, mySQL db's, etc. Everything is transferring this way, right?

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All the /home/username is transferred + mySQL Database.

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[franki]

Thank you very much mmkassem for your quick answers!

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[franki]

One more question!

You said that I need username/password of each account. Can I use the usernames of accounts and the reseller password? I'm afraid I don't have all passwords.

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[mmkassem]

Thank you very much mmkassem for your quick answers!

You welcome.

Originally posted by franki
One more question!

You said that I need username/password of each account. Can I use the usernames of accounts and the reseller password? I'm afraid I don't have all passwords.

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The transfer requires FTP connection to the user first host. So you will have to use their password.

Change their passwords and tell them that you are moving to a new server. And send them a new generated password via email asking them to change it again.

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[franki]

I'm here again. I noticed (in the demo) that in the "Copy an account from another server with account password" option it says "The Remote Server must be cPanel3 or cPanel4 or cPanel4.5 or Webpanel based". The server (from which I want to transfer) has CPanel 6. What does this mean? I cannot use this transfer method?

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by franki
I'm here again. I noticed (in the demo) that in the "Copy an account from another server with account password" option it says "The Remote Server must be cPanel3 or cPanel4 or cPanel4.5 or Webpanel based". The server (from which I want to transfer) has CPanel 6. What does this mean? I cannot use this transfer method?

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No problem, It will transfer .. They meant cPanel => 3

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[franki]

Originally posted by mmkassem
No problem, It will transfer .. They meant cPanel => 3

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Thank you mmkassem.

By the way, are you my personal assistance? I get a response from you very quickly!

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[NNNils]

This option is there indeed, but in my experience it does not always work.

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[franki]

Originally posted by NNNils
This option is there indeed, but in my experience it does not always work.

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Is there any other way to transfer a domain (files, users, passwords, db's, ... everything) if this method doesn't work?

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[NNNils]

As far as I know: no.

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by NNNils
This option is there indeed, but in my experience it does not always work.

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yeah sometimes it does not work.

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[pagedeveloping]

This is a very time consuming job if you have alot of clients but it worked for me. The only thing that had not copied over was the email fowards and filters.

Like mentioned before you will need to change all passwords and I would recommend you use the same for all. ( takes a little frustration out )

Make sure you do this at a time when your old reseller server is not going through any updates or maintenance.

also, if you had changed your DNS Information for your domain name (name server) that your clients use, don't forget to tell them that they need to change it to the new one.

When you have completed your transfers you will need to go back to each account and change the ownership from your reseller to your root. You may also want to create new packages to get rid of your resellername_packagename
You can do this through upgrade/downgrade after you created the new packages.

I wish you good look!

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[franki]

For me the most important thing is the users' passwords. I have 100+ domains and hundrers of email accounts. I cannot contact all of them informing about the new generated password! Some other things such as email filters, etc. are not very important, I can setup it again by myself.

I know that large sites (total data > 100MB) are difficult to be transferred. Any 'tip' for transferring them as well?

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