We have created several scripts which will convert your cPanel server into CWP.
Last Update: 13.09.2021
How does this work?
- First, we export from cPanel all user account details into temporary files so we can later import them into CWP.
- Second, we create backup of cPanel and uninstall it.
- Third, we install CWP, this is the regular CWP installation process.
- Fourth, we import data into CWP from the exported files of the first step.
REQUIREMENTS
- CentOS 7 latest version
- MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB (Recommended MariaDB)
- Change MySQL root password to something without special characters
- Remove CloudLinux
How safe is this?
- On the first step after the script run, you get information about exported data from the cPanel.
- First script run doesn't make any changes on the system so you can check and confirm that all is covered.
- User Accounts: All user files in /home/USERNAME are not touched so server accounts are safe.
- MySQL Database: We don't make any MySQL changes on the databases so your databases are safe.
- MySQL version: currently installed from cPanel is left without any changes.
- User Home Files: nothing is touched except for migration of emails to /var/vmail folder.
- Cronjobs are kept the same.
** It's always smart to have account backups before starting with the major changes.
Imported data
- User accounts, domains, subdomains, parked domains
- Email accounts-mailboxes, forwarders-aliases, autoresponders-autoreply, alias pipe to script
- Resellers
- Hosting packages
- FTP accounts
- SSL Certificates
- Hostname SSL Certificates for (cwp, mail, ftp, webservers)
- All PHP versions (5.3 - 7.3) and we have added handlers of cPanel
Not Imported
- Postgres databases
Required:
- /var/vmail will be the new location for your emails so make sure /var partition has the required size or you can symlink it to /home/vmail
FAQ
- How login this conversion takes: from 10min to 4h depends on the data and server performances
- You should first remove CloudLinux (if you have it) before starting with step 1.
Migration Instructions
Download migration scripts
wget dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/s_scripts/el7/cpanel-converter/1-cpanel-data-export.sh wget dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/s_scripts/el7/cpanel-converter/2-cpanel-uninstall.sh wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-el7-latest wget dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/s_scripts/el7/cpanel-converter/4-import-into-cwp.sh wget dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/s_scripts/el7/cpanel-converter/5-mail-sni.sh
Now run the first script
** If you have CloudLinux make sure it was removed before
sh 1-cpanel-data-export.sh
** Check that all data is listed there before proceeding to the next steep
Uninstall cPanel
sh 2-cpanel-uninstall.sh
Install CWP (CentOS 7)
Default installer, bellow you have optional instructions
sh cwp-el7-latest
Optional arguments for installer
–phpfpm [5.3|5.4|5.5|5.6|7.0|7.1|7.2|7.3] (you can use only one)
–softaculous yes (install softaculous – script installer)
Available short name arguments
-p [5.3|5.4|5.5|5.6|7.0|7.1|7.2|7.3] (you can use only one)
-s yes (install softaculous – script installer)
Example for centos 7 (you can combine short and long name arguments)
sh cwp-el7-latest --phpfpm 7.2 --softaculous yes
Import all exported data into CWP
sh 4-import-into-cwp.sh
Generate Mail Certificates Postfix/Dovecot
sh 5-mail-sni.sh
That is it, reboot the server and you are ready!
OTHER NOTES & SUPPORT
This tool is provided at no cost and without warranty.
If you need to migrate CentOS 6 the its recommend first to migrate all accounts on other cpanel server with CentOS7 and then convert CentOS7 to CWP7.
In case some of your clients don't get satisfied you can make a cpanel backup without the homedir for all users before starting cpanel removal so they can easily return to cpanel.
for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains |awk -F: {'print $2'}`;do /scripts/pkgacct --skiphomedir $i /home;done
CloudLinux Uninstall
https://docs.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux_installation/#uninstalling
Rebuild Named/Bind conf
In most cases you will need to rebuild /etc/named.conf file, we have an API here:
wiki.centos-webpanel.com/cwp-admin-api
ISSUES: MAIL MIGRATION (Optional)
In case of failed migration of emails you can run this command
for i in `find /home/*/mail/* -type d -maxdepth 0 -name "*.*"`;do mv $i /var/vmail/;done
** After that make sure you do API command to fix mail permissions