PMM - Migration Manager - from /home/httpd to /var/www Frontpage ext.

[BoXie]

Hi,

When using Plesk Migration Manager for transferring websites from the same (7.5.4 up-to-date) Plesk version BUT with different webroot paths (/home/httpd to /var/www), websites with Frontpage Extensions installed get broken. All the .htaccess files and some FP ext. files still contain the old path's (/home/httpd).
I found this out after a lot of searching and thinking .. so a little workaround / fix or user notification would be nice !

For the rest : Migration Manager is a great tool for ehm .. migrations !! It worked really well over here .. and saved me a lot of time ! Well done SW-Soft !

(Migrated from FC2 / 7.5.4 to Centos 4.2 / 7.5.4)
With regards,

Sander van Boxtel.

 

[bartje3]

Hi,

Just insert a symbolic link to the new path.

In shell run:

ln -s /var/www /home/httpd

That fixed it for me.

Greetings,
Bart

 

[BoXie]

Indeed ... that is a smart solution ..

But i still think that the move from /home/httpd/ to /var/www should contain some documentation for admins. Like for instance , what kind of troubles they are likely to run-in to.

Also .. will that symbolic link also work for PHP scripts with 'absolute path' entries in their config files ? I guess the open_basedir restriction will block it ?

 

[bartje3]

Hi,

I red here in the forum some suggestion to keep the /home/httpd/vhosts (move the /var/www/vhosts) dir and change the path in /etc/psa/psa.conf to:

HTTPD_VHOSTS_D /home/httpd/vhosts

But that didn't change my httpd include, neither after restarting apache or psa, so I deceide to do it by symlinking.

Yes some php scripts like mambo could break, you will have to change the config.php in each mambo dir (3 lines I guess). On my server only a few broke (where several additional modules where installed).

Then, I wanted to change to /var/www because on next update/migration you will have the same issues again, so better now than later...

Greetings
Bart

 

[thewolf]

Originally posted by bartje3
Yes some php scripts like mambo could break, you will have to change the config.php in each mambo dir (3 lines I guess). On my server only a few broke (where several additional modules where installed).

Did your PHP scripts break even with the symlink in place from /home/httpd/vhosts to /var/www/vhosts?

If so, can you list the scripts that broke?

That list would be very useful!

Thanks.

 

[BoXie]

Haven't tried it ...

PHP scripts almost always have only one or two 'path' variables to set in a config file. I just modified those vars.

 

[breun]

See http://kb.swsoft.com/article_16_1165_en.html