Migration strategy

Making a subdomain on fyodor and pointing it at mire

It is possible to test out your setup on the new servers by making a new subdomin on the old machine that points to the new machine. This way you can hone your new setup until it's as good as the old, while still having access to the old.

First, make a directory in your /etc/domains/TLD/DOMAIN folder on the old machine. TLD is the Top-Level Domain of your domain. For example, it might be com, net, us, in etc. DOMAIN is your domain, and SUB is the new subdomain that you would like to use. SUB should not include any of the text in DOMAIN, and should have no periods.

mkdir /etc/domains/TLD/DOMAIN/SUB

In that directory, make a file called .dns with the following contents.

Primary         ns      ns
Default         69.90.123.68

Then, run the domtool command to finalize your changes on Fyodor.

Now request control of the DOMAIN using the new portal (http://members.hcoop.net). When you receive notification of control, you can then log into mire.hcoop.net and configure DomTool so that Apache knows it can serve your SUBdomain. Please take a look at using DomTool, the DomTool user guide, and DomTool examples to learn how to do this. You'll probably want to take a look at the vhost directive.