hello everyone please is there a method to import a Cpanel backup file directly to virtualmin thank you very much
There is—a quick web search turns up https://www.interserver.net/tips/kb/migration-from-cpanel-to-webmin-virtualmin/ for starters—but be aware, depending on the complexity of your Cpanel site, there is a very definite possibility that successfully importing the Cpanel backup will still leave you very far from having a correctly configured, working website on Virtualmin.
I only chose virtualmin because they say it can import Cpanel backups, what that didn’t prepare me for is that it subsequently took me a nightmarish several weeks of consecutive full days of troubleshooting and reserch to get from importing my Cpanel backup to actually having everything configured correctly and working, even though on the Cpanel-based server I made the backup from it all worked perfectly fine. I really wound up wishing I had just re-set the sites up by hand from the command line and not gone with Virtualmin at all.
Granted, I am far from an expert server administrator, so my experience may have been an outlier. But you need to understand, most especially if you are migrating a Cpanel account with multiple domains/subdomains, virtualmin does things differently from Cpanel and not all the settings translate directly, and there are also places where it’s just not going to import absolutely every setting. And Virtualmin is not set up to be easy for newbies to pick up run with, I’ve been an IT consultant and web developer (but not a web host or apache admin) for many decades and after two solid months of working on this it’s still something a struggle for me to puzzle a lot of the details out. I think it’s really more of a tool for server admins who really know what they’re doing.
Ultimately Virtualmin absolutely does have some conveniences to it—I imagine even moreso if you’re an experienced web server admin running a shared server with multiple sites and users on it—and none of this is intended as criticism of Virtualmin, as a tool for its target audience. But if you are a user just looking to migrate your Cpanel-hosted website to an in-house server, and imagining you’re just going to import your Cpanel backup to Virtualmin, fire up your server, and then have your website working on a new server just like that, then no, it depends on your configuration, but there’s a real possibility that’s actually going to create much more hassle for you than just setting up the site from scratch and migrating all the files and databases by hand would. At least, it did for me. Your mileage may vary.
the most important for me is the emails I don’t want to rewrite the emails I want me to import it from the cpanel backup file and it stays with the same password and the same data ???
Oh. I have my domain’s email service hosted completely separately from my website, so I myself can’t speak to how it handles that, that wasn’t part of my Cpanel import at all.
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