Contribution DirectAdmin 2 Plesk Migration

[Tozz]

As requested by eug, I hereby would like to refer to our da2plesk (DirectAdmin to Plesk) Migration script. This script can be downloaded from GitHub from here: https://github.com/rudybroersma/da2plesk

The original thread can be found here:
http://forum.odin.com/threads/directadmin-to-plesk.102647/#post-649965

 

[Tozz]

And perhaps it is also nice to point intested parties to our cp2plesk script:
https://github.com/rudybroersma/cp2plesk

I am aware that Plesk Migration Manager has a cPanel to Plesk migration function, but it doesn't work properly for migrating hundres of sites. For example, it does not search and replace paths, so any include() with a absolute URL will fail.

 

[IgorG]

The original thread can be found here:
http://forum.odin.com/threads/directadmin-to-plesk.102647/#post-649965

It is not good idea to give a link to Odin forum where all Plesk discussions are hidden and closed. Could you please copy your text here and remove link to Odin forum?

 

[Tozz]

I have been working on a DirectAdmin 2 Plesk migration script. This is work in progress and "AS IS". It also requires some general Linux/programming skills to use. Is it not meant as a ready-to-use migration system. It needs work. No documentation as of now.

You can get it from Git:
https://github.com/rudybroersma/da2plesk/

Basicly, this script takes an unpacked DirectAdmin backup (login as admin on DA -> Create/restore backup -> select user and create backup. Copy the .tar.gz backup to your plesk server, unpack it somewhere) and retrieves data from the backup file.

The script outputs a series of CLI commands, run those to migrate the domain.

It does the following:
- Find and replace pathnames to Plesk path structure
- Create client account and subscription
- Upload files using lftp
- Create and insert databases and database users
- Create and migrate POP3 accounts (including e-mail using imapsync)
- Create mail forwards
- Create subdomains, aliases, pointers (using custom 301 redirects)
- Migrate protected directories and restore/reset .htaccess files (set proper password file location)
- (optionally) e-mail your customer with the new login details.
- Install cron scripts
- Change DNS records to the new IPs, while keeping user modifications

It does NOT:
- Migrate mailinglists

Current issues:
- The script sets the mysql password using MySQL CLI instead of PSA tools. This causes the 'DB WebAdmin' link to fail in Plesk. Fix is to enter the MySQL user password in Plesk.
- Limited to one account at a time (we use a bash loop script to migrate hundreds of domains in one go)
- Script needs to differentiate between errors and warnings, and exit on error(s).

The script relies on a file containing all e-mail passwords. I have gathered the e-mail passwords by patching Dovecot to log passwords. More details on this will be in the readme.md.