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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: zenny on November 23, 2007, 05:25:44 PM

Title: How to migrate from a production server (RH7.3) to smeserver?
Post by: zenny on November 23, 2007, 05:25:44 PM

I have a working server with all services running with RH7.3, it has a few virtual domains hosted. I want to migrate it to smeserver to check how it works in realtime. But I could not find any documentation to accomplish the same. Checked forum here and could not find the relevant results. I am new to sme and the server hosting.

On the other hand, I am a bit confused about the network interfaces. The guy who setup the old server has assigned several public IPs to eth0 to eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2 and eth0:n. I could not justify the rationale of those virtual network interfaces and also do not know how to make it work in sme?

Any suggestion or pointers and hints would be appreciated.

PS: I was very much impressed with the response from the documentation team to my first forum post. It is amazing which encouraged me to test smeserver indeed! :-)

Title: Re: How to migrate from a production server (RH7.3) to smeserver?
Post by: mmccarn on November 23, 2007, 06:16:58 PM

There isn't any cut and dried process for migrating from an existing RHEL 7.3 server.

You would need to make a list of all of the functions performed by the old server, then figure out how to duplicate each function on your SME server.

I suspect that your old server is managing the multiple web domains by IP address (since you mention eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1, etc) - SME does this using the domain name that is used to request the page - so you can host 10 domains on one server, all sharing port 80 - but browsers are returned the desired website based on the URL that was entered.  To do this on a SME server you would:

1) Create an ibay for each website
2) create a "domain" for each virtual domain, and specify which ibay is used to host that domain
3) change your public DNS to return the WAN IP of the SME server for all domains.

More specific help would require a more specific question :-)

Title: Re: How to migrate from a production server (RH7.3) to smeserver?
Post by: byte on November 23, 2007, 07:14:10 PM

Quote from: mmccarn on November 23, 2007, 06:16:58 PM

There isn't any cut and dried process for migrating from an existing RHEL 7.3 server.

Believe they mean a standard (before Fedora Core) Red Hat 7.3 box, as RHEL is only at 5.x ;)