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Hello,
I was unable to find any information in the forums on this topic, so I thought I'd post what I'm doing.
Basically I'm migrating a Plesk server from one physical sub-net to another on a completely different switch and sub-net. The switches are physically close enough that I can use both Eth cards on the Plesk server to allow access to both subnets at the same time. The reason for this is to limit downtime during the migration as some visitors may have the old (DNS) address cached.
There are two obstacles to overcome.
1) Setting up Linux to be Multihoned
2) Setting up Plesk to use both IP's
I'm not entirely finished trying #2 yet, but it seems to be working.
--- Here's what I've done -----
1) Setup Linux to be Mulit-honed
2) Setting up Plesk to use both IP's
I couldn't locate anywhere within plesk to change the IP address of the Virtual/Shared Hosts to use the new IP/Interface. Someone please correct me if there is a way to do this.
Hope this helps if anyone is looking to do the same thing. And if I've done something that's incompatible with Plesk, please speak up.
I was unable to find any information in the forums on this topic, so I thought I'd post what I'm doing.
Basically I'm migrating a Plesk server from one physical sub-net to another on a completely different switch and sub-net. The switches are physically close enough that I can use both Eth cards on the Plesk server to allow access to both subnets at the same time. The reason for this is to limit downtime during the migration as some visitors may have the old (DNS) address cached.
There are two obstacles to overcome.
1) Setting up Linux to be Multihoned
2) Setting up Plesk to use both IP's
I'm not entirely finished trying #2 yet, but it seems to be working.
--- Here's what I've done -----
1) Setup Linux to be Mulit-honed
Code:
a) edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1
Assuming you're migrating to the
subnet on eth1, eth1 will be your
primary outbound interface.
Code:
b) add the following two lines to
/etc/iproute2/rt_tables
200 T1
201 T2
Code:
c) setup the following file to run at startup.
ensure UPPERCASE variables are
replaced by the correct information.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iproute
#!/bin/sh
ip route add NEW_IP_NET dev eth1 src NEW_IP_ADDR table T1
ip route add default via NEW_IP_GATEWAY table T1
ip route add OLD_IP_NET dev eth0 src OLD_IP_ADDR table T2
ip route add default via OLD_IP_GATEWAY table T2
ip route add NEW_IP_NET dev eth1 src NEW_IP_ADDR
ip route add OLD_IP_NET dev eth0 src OLD_IP_ADDR
ip route del default via OLD_IP_GATEWAY
ip route add default via NEW_IP_GATEWAY
ip rule add from NEW_IP_ADDR table T1
ip rule add from OLD_IP_ADDR table T2
Code:
d) Run (service network restart)
Code:
e) Run (/etc/rc.d/init.d/iproute)2) Setting up Plesk to use both IP's
I couldn't locate anywhere within plesk to change the IP address of the Virtual/Shared Hosts to use the new IP/Interface. Someone please correct me if there is a way to do this.
Code:
a) You need to edit the files located at...
/var/www/vhosts/SITENAME/conf/httpd.include
Duplicate all of the references in the
VirtualHost area and reference the new IP
Address for the duplicated section.
Code:
b) Run (service restart httpd)Hope this helps if anyone is looking to do the same thing. And if I've done something that's incompatible with Plesk, please speak up.
