Related to Transferring virtual domain

[James McDonald]

Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> Hi
> 
>         I am very new to apache related matters. We have one vitual site under
> one server. The server is down now.  We want to make the site activated. For
> that we are thinking that we will activate this site in a different
> server(redhat8.0)
> 
>         So for that, we are follwing these steps:
> 
>         - making entry of the domain under the new server at httpd.conf file
>         - At the document root we are giving the path
>           suppose  /home/sites/domain/web
>         - this web directory we are copying from the old server 
>         - we are restarting the http at the new server
> 
> When the old server will be up then again we will delete the entry of that site
>  from the new server . Then the site will again be activated at the old
> server.. 
> 
> Is the procedure is ok? Am i missing any steps? 
> 
> Suggessions/advice is needed...

You will need to update DNS to point the domain name to the new web 
server IP address.

Does the server use cgi ? if so make sure you will have to move the 
cgi's aswell and have a scriptAlias

Here is my Virtual Host for the step by step site.


<VirtualHost 192.168.5.12:80>
     ServerAdmin james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
     DocumentRoot /home/james/public_html/sxs
     Redirect /mailman/listinfo http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo
     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/james/public_html/sxs/cgi-bin/"
     ServerName sxs.gotdns.org
     ServerAlias sxs
</VirtualHost>


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