[Tutorial] How to Change the IP Address of Server?

At this tutorial i wanna show how to change the IP Address of CentOS Web Panel server.

Please follow these steps in order to IP Address of your VPS/Dedicated server:

1- Go to CWP Settings --> Edit Settings and replace Shared IP field with Default/New IP Address

2- Go to CWP Settings --> Change Hostname and replace New Hostname with rDNS/PTR records of your Default/New IP (you can check this record by reverse DNS lookup services)

3- Go to User Accounts --> List Accounts and you need to go to "Edit Account" section of all accounts on your server and replace IP field with Default/New IP Address (you also must check the "Update DNS Zone" checkbox)

4- Go to DNS Functions --> Edit Nameservers IPs and replace all NS1 and NS2 IPs with Default/New IP Address.

5- after all of this I suggest you to rebuild your WebServer in order to prevent future issues , So you need to Go to Apache Settings --> Apache Re-Build and recompile your apache webserver

6- If you were using Varnish Cache or Nginx Reverse Proxy you must
Go to Apache Settings --> Select WebServers and select Default Web Servers which you were using and Click on "Save & Rebuild Configuration".

7-if you were using MailServer you should Rebuild your MailServer

8-Reboot your server

9-Enjoy!

Simple and to the point. Thanks for sharing Sunboys, very helpful.

Awesome, thanks for sharing it.

I hate digging up old topics but since this is a howto and what I used to change my server IP there are a couple more things that need to be considered.
-Changing your IP in the WebUI is not enough, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
-Make sure your glue records are correct at your registrar. I'm using CWP to manage DNS and forgot to update the glue records besides editing in DNS functions.
-If using CWPpro, update your IP in your account, I forgot about that too
-Would be nice if there was an official howto

Thanks for the info but How to change subdomain dns? this isnt changing subdomain ips. Do i have to manually edit subdomain dns zone ip?

Can I change the IP to 127.0.0.1 or localhost and all rebuild all the vhost files pointing to 127.0.0.1

Hi,

I'm assuming this is stil the valid procedure to change the server IP.
I'm just wondering if there is an way to automate step 3.  Doing that for 100+ accounts is quite time consuming.

Thanks,
Joaquim

Not really.

The easiest way is have your rDNS/PTR set already at your host.

Change the IP for CWP in the support section.

The log into your server, and manually change the base IP, if you only have 1 IP you are changing.

Reboot the server, CWP will see the change.

You then can goto CWP Settings -> Edit Settings, and confirm your new IP is listed as the Shared IP.
It will pull that IP the same as the Base IP.
Click Save Changes, and the IP should propagate to all accounts.

Changing an IP isn't easy.