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Changing from single site setup to multiple site setup with Virtualmin

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#1 Tue, 07/16/2013 - 07:42

prsystems

Changing from single site setup to multiple site setup with Virtualmin

Hi

I have a server where I initially setup a single site in var/www/html/

I now have the need to change this to a multiple site setup and have installed Virtualmin, which I have some experience with on other servers, to help with the multiple hosts setup.

My question is this - If I setup a new host with Virtualmin in the home directory is it simply a case of copying the current contents of the site that is in the var/www/html/ directory into the newly created host?

The site in question has a Wordpress blog and a Magento shop too...

Thanks for any help you can offer

Paul

#2 Tue, 07/16/2013 - 09:02

andreychek

Howdy,

Well, changing the path of a WordPress installation can be a bit tricky... WordPress has instructions on how to do that here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

I suspect Magento would have similar instructions.

-Eric

#3 Tue, 07/16/2013 - 09:43

prsystems

Hi

Thanks for the reply but I don't think I have explained myself properly.

I have a VPS with one site only hosted in the root of the var/www/root/ directory.

My concern is that when I setup a new virtual host using virtualmin that this directory will no longer be recognised by Apache as Virtualmin sets its hosts up in the home/ directory. I installed Virtualmin after manually setting up the original site.

I just wondered if all I had to do was simply set up a new virtual host for my existing site and move the files over then add other virtual hosts or is there more to I than that?

Paul

#4 Tue, 07/16/2013 - 11:19

Locutus

Generally, it is possible to host a site from the default Apache path /var/www even with Virtualmin installed.

On the other hand, it is highly discouraged to install Virtualmin on a system that already has an active and working web hosting setup on it. While it is possible, it is a complex process and requires manual tweaking of a lot of things.

It'd be better to take a backup of the sites currently being hosted, then install Virtualmin on a fresh Linux, create the required domains, and put the sites' data into that.

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