migrating to new server

Submitted by PlayGod on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 18:50

Hi folks,

I am migrating to a new server, sorry I didn't renew until now but there was a huge delay in the switch to a VPS from the old dedicated server so I just limped along for a few months.

Since I added VM to the VPS server, I can't log in to the old dedicated server's VM control panel.

Is there anything special I can do to have access to the old panel as well as the new? It would make some tasks easier to be able to see some of the old VM settings.

Serial Number License Key Start Date End Date Max Domains Max Servers Download 5555643 7PYNPRXVZNX 10/15/2007 10/15/2011 50 1 Linux or Solaris

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 19:00

Howdy -- the only time Virtualmin prevents a login is if the password is incorrect, or there were too many incorrect login attempts from a given host. It won't lock you out for having an expired license, or Virtualmin being installed onto more than one server.

It's perfectly normal to want to install Virtualmin on two systems during a migration... that's actually what we recommend, as described here:

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/system/migrate

You may want to check some simple things, such as verifying that the password is correct on your old server. You could also try restarting Webmin on the old server, which would remove any blocks of hosts with too many failed login attempts.

If that doesn't help, take a peek in /var/webmin/miniserv.error, do you see anything related in there?

Submitted by PlayGod on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 21:13

fixed by

/etc/webmin/stop /etc/usermin/stop killall miniserv.pl

ps aux |grep webmin & killing relevant pid's

and /etc/init.d/webmin restart

Thanks for jogging my memory.