Question:cPanel to Directadmin(one cpanel account with 400 parked domains and emails)

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cpanel can create seperate email accounts on each parked domains . but directadmin dosen't do same . (create completly seperate email accounts on domain pointers , and if i try to add a domain from domian setup section i can't set same home directory for this two domains)

* My first priority and discussion is just about Emails on parked domains.

i have a (just one) cPanel account and one cpanel full backup file that there is 400 parked domain,800 databse accounts and 800 email accounts on this parked domain's ( iknow it's unusual , one of my client have this bad strutage)

* my client is a web developer and they host their cms (200 copies of this cms , with separate databases , home directory and parked domain and email) on one cPanel account and they didn't provide cPanel access to their users . they just provide only access to webmail and their CMS . ( so just webmail access to users is important to me , email creation also managed and handle by admin , not users and i'll provide just webmail access to users)

My question is : can i restore this E-mails from cPanel on direct admin ? and how directadmin manage and handle this ? and how i see and manage this emails on my directadmin User Level access?

- it will be one directadmin user with 400 domain pointer ?! or 400 domains ?!(that we can manage it from domain setup section) ?? and how is default conversion from cpanel full backup ?! and what will happen to my users email accounts under their cpanel parked domains ?!

emails data can be restored and they owner can "access their old emails data and use that" ? , and "can we create new email accounts under they parked domain(cpanel definition) ?

i'll seperate each domain in sepearated account in future . but i need that i can restore my old data and continue with this current strutage on directadmin too.

- how can continue this strotegy on directadmin ?

i want use this tool to convert my cPanel full backup to directadmin backup format : http://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=2247&page=21

and can directadmin's support or experts help me on this senario ? i'll pay for admin time or any possible way to get your support for this .
( i sent an email to [email protected] )
and also i want have a technical disscusion to solve this senario and best soloution for do this .
 
Parked domains cant have email at all. If you want email you have to create them as a regular domain under the user.
 
Hello,

I've replied to your email, for anyone else who is curious, this is what I recommended:

1) Delete the pointer in DA if it already exists.
2) Create the pointer as a full domain, and not a pointer (if the backup is not yet restored, manually create the User and domain before restoring the backup)
3) Then, if needed, restore the backup. You'll probably get errors about the domain already existing, but you can ignore them.
4) Then add the emails to the domain.

5) With regards to mirroring the web data, you can just use symbolic links to mirror the public_html folders.
Ensure the owner of the links are that of the User, or apache will throw an error.
Use the -h option with chown to affect the link.
- pointer.com will be the name of the full domain created (instead of the domain pointer).
- maindomain.com will be the domain it needs to point to:
Code: 
cd /home/user/domains/[B]pointer.com[/B]
mv public_html public_html.old
ln -s ../[B]maindomain.com[/B]/public_html ./public_html
chown -h [B]user:user[/B] ./public_html
repeat for the private_html if needed.

John
 
Thanks john , it's helpful .

but can you suggest any automation for do this ? (create domains as new full domain and emails under this full domains)

i have 400 domains and 800 emails . and i have a list of domains and emails names .

is there any cli commands to create domains and emails on a directadmin account ? ( i can write a script for this)

my directadmin is clean , there is no domain pointer or emails yet .

i will create a directadmin user and i'll create all my parked domain as full domain. ( it will be a Directadmin user with 400 addedd full domains on it )

and after all , if i use the "cPanel-to-DirectAdmin conversion tool" to restore my converted cPanel fullback on directadmin , this tool can restore emails on this manualy created emails account on directadmin ? and my users can acccess to old email data through Webmail ?
 
all of domains are full domains and 0 domain pointers .

each of them have seperated document root and emails accounts

* my client have just cpanel user level access for long time and they expand their bussiness just with their user level access !!

i have :
1 cPanel account with :
400 Parked domains
2000 Email account
800 databases .

it will be :
1 directadmin account with :
400 full domain added (from domain setup)
0 Domain pointers.
2000 Email account
800 databases .

i have time limit for transfer and it's very hard and time-consuming to manualy create 400 directadmin account and manualy transfer from cpanel.
i looking a way for "convert" and restore my cPanel to directadmin and continue old way same as cPanel without no old data loss .
 
Ah, ok, then yes, the cpanel-to-DA converstion tool is likely something you'd want to try and use.
Unfortunately, it's not covered by our support (3rd party scripts and data migrations not covered), but I'm sure there would be many qualified Admins here who might be able to offer their support services.

John
 
thanks .

yes, i need this support service.

if any budy can advise or do this conversion from cPanel , please send me a PM.
 
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