Move Site to New Server
The move website tool allows you to quickly move whole website or individual services (ie: email) belong to a websites between servers on your LxRoot cluster (Shared or Dedicated).
LxRoot will automatically update the DNS for websites that use LxRoot. If a website's DNS is hosted externally, this will need to be update manually.
The following websites can not be moved between servers on your LxRoot cluster:
- The Application role for service websites can not be moved to a new server.
- Soft deleted website can not be moved between servers.
# Move website to new server
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It is possible to move websites between different web server types (Apache, LiteSpeed and OpenLiteSpeed)
WARNING
It is not possible to move the database role for websites which are utilising 'Caching_sha2_password' authentication plugin between different database kinds (MariaDB and MySQL). To move a website with 'Caching_sha2_password' you will need to delete all users and readd them with 'mysql_native_password).
To move websites between servers on your LxRoot cluster:
- Open Servers in the left side bar
- Select Manage on the server you would like to move the websites from
- Scroll to services and select the service you would like to move the websites from and select Move server
- When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
- You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move
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- Open Websites in the left side bar
- Select one or more websites that you would like to move and click Move server
- When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
- You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move
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- Open Move server in the left side bar
- Click 'New migration' this will push you to the Websites page
- Select one or more websites that you would like to move and click Move server
- When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
- You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move
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When a server move is in progress, you can move away from the page. You will be notified when the move is complete.