Things you will forget when migrating to a new server
by z3n on Oct.26, 2009, under Linux Happyness
When migrating to a new server you will forget to:
- Check php session folder pemissions (/var/lib/php/session/ this folder must be writable)
- Do a DNS reverse setup, and will only notice when emails start to bounce.
- To configure dovecot you need to enable the protocols AND make sure it’s listening to internet as well (webmin configuration is ambiguous and bugged, you should edit the conf file manually)
- To add ALL old users BEFORE doing the file copy
- To add a trailing slash (/) when doing rsync file copy, which will generate /home/user/home/user/ instead of /home/user/
- To check server’s firewall before starting apache and wondering why nothing is working.
- When setting up a new nameserver, you always tend to ignore “.org, .net, .com only” which might cause lots of headaches later, when you realize that ns will not work, after changing 100 domains.
