DA Setup & Transfer of Licenses to IP ?

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Nautic

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Hi Guys,

Small question, we are setting up a few servers under co-location for clients. Ideally we want to be able to configure and install DA at the home office, where we have a dedicated IP address. We would then drive the server 15 minutes away and slot it in to the rack in the data center.

Now questions ;)

What is the best procedure for this as in our Wholesale account the license is binded to an IP. The IP address we are setting up on at the home office is going to be different to the IP address in the data center.

It's easier to set this up here as in a lot of cases we are moving existing servers using CPanel over to the new servers using Direct Admin, we therefor have physical access to the original server and minimising our time in the DC minimises our costs.

Any help appreciated.
 
It sounds like you already have your procedure in place.

Build server in home office.
Transfer server.
Change ip on server and license.
 
Seems so, however seems not so ;)


See below:
Your server IP must be an external IP address. Local IP addresses (192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x) will not work. The IP in your network device must be the same IP in your license file, as well as the public IP that connects to our system to download the license and binaries. This means that LANs will not work. More info on IP requirements

In order for DirectAdmin to be able to run on your system, 3 things must be true:

1) The licensed IP must exists on the box. Type /sbin/ifconfig, and you must see the licensed IP in the output.

2) The licensed IP must function and be able to be bound to, eg:

wget --bind-address=1.2.3.4 http://www.directadmin.com/index.html

3) the IP that connects to our server must be the licensed IP.


If you only have a LAN with 192.168.x.x IPs on it, they would not satisfy rule number 1 and 2.
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Regards,

.Joel
 
The use of private ip addresses would have been useful in your first post.

However search this forum. I have posted how to make private ip addresses work.
 
anna said:
What happens when the IP changes?
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If you're referring to what happens to DirectAdmin when the IP changes, the answer is that DirectAdmin will no longer run or update.

DirectAdmin doesn't support Floyd's solution.

Jeff
 
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