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Migrating User Accounts, Domain Names
and Web Sites from Other Hosting
Platforms
Migration of user accounts, domain names and web sites from other hosting platforms
to Plesk control panel is performed by Plesk Migration Manager tool, created for easy
and fast migration from other, competitive control panels to Plesk, and also for
migration from older releases of Plesk and from different platforms of Plesk.
At the present moment you can migrate the following platforms to Plesk:
Confixx 1.65, 2, 3
CommuniGate Pro
earlier releases of Plesk and Slash (for FreeBSD or Linux)
Cobalt Raq 2, 3, 4, 550, XTR
cPanel 9, 10, 11
Ensim 3.5, 4, 10 (experimental, should not be used on production servers)
Hsphere 2.4.2
To migrate all user accounts, domains, and web sites with applications from other
hosting platforms:
1 Click the Server shortcut.
2 Click the Migration Manager icon in the Services group.
3 Click the Start New Migration icon in the Tools group.
4 Leave the Migration option selected, and specify the following options:
The source host. Specify either the IP address or the host name of the server,
from which you want to transfer data.
The login name and password used for logging in to the remote host you are
migrating. You can either use the 'root' login, or use an account with sudo
enabled, provided that this account is allowed to run any commands through
sudo.
Note: If you have enabled on the source host the ability to obtain superuser
privileges without supplying a password (there is the line user (ALL)=ALL
NOPASSWD:ALL in the file /etc/sudoers), then you do not need to specify
any password in the Sudo password box.
5 Make sure that the remote hosting platform is running, and the "iconv"
utility is installed in the remote host's operating system.
6 Click Next>>. The migration manager will connect to the specified host
and gather information on the business objects of the remote hosting
platform.
