Question Website migration check script/tool.

[kevinjansen1]

Dear forum users,

I am planning to migrate our Directadmin Servers (around 800 domains) to Plesk. I have checked the plesk migration tool, and it can transfer Directadmin to Plesk, the issue i am running against is that in 90% of all cases the databases gets transfered, but in some cases they dont. (not a error, nothing. Plesk reports it as done succesfully.

I have a list (database export) so i can check what databases are missing and am planning to add them manually.

But now i am looking for a script that checks a website before the transfer, and then checks it again after the migration. I am then going to compate the results if its the same.
This can be done by doing a curl get request before and after, and a diff command over the 2 files, but this results mostly in always some minor changes, what makes it hard to check fast if its failing or if the change is like a build in calander or time/date that is someone using on there page.

I am thinking about. Generate thumbnail/screenshot 2 times (1 before and 1 after the migration) and watching the 2 screenshots if the website mostly looks the same.
Do u got any tips, free scripts or advice how you did such migrations?

Kind regards,

Kevin

 

[kevinjansen1]

Few steps closer:

1. Database issues seems to be fixed. You need to have mysqlconf=/usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf inside in /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf while DA does not create this anymore by default.

2. You can check/make website screenshot with phantomJs,

Now i am with the following, there are 4 php installs on Directadmin (5.6/7.2/7.3/7.4) but plesk seems to always use php 7.3 if a client uses 5.6 or 7.2.
All versions are installed in plesk but plesk marks them as (outdated) maybe thats why it takes the first one thats not outdated?

 

[Kaspar]

I have no experience using DA. However, I do believe that Plesk (AFAIK) uses the PHP version selected/set in the service plan. I don't know how Plesk manages services plans when migrating from DA. But it might be worth checking out your service plans and perhaps change the PHP version according to your needs?

 

[Kaspar]

Actually, thinking about this, what you could do is create a list for each of the outdated PHP versions containing the domains using them. Then create a script that you run after the migration on the Plesk server which loops trough the domains and assigns an add-on plan to each of those domains with the appropriate PHP version. Using the Plesk CLI.

So you'll first have to create add-on Plans in Plesk for each of the older PHP versions.

Script would be something like (not tested this myself)

#!/bin/bash

array=(example.com mydomain.de hellworld.at)

for var in "${array[@]}"
do
  echo "${var}"
  plesk bin subscription --add-subscription ${var} -service-plan addon-plan-php5.6
done

I am sure there are other solutions, but this what popped in my head