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Installation / Re: Best solution for migrate active server from Centos 7 to another distro

« Last post by overseer on November 03, 2025, 11:56:38 AM »

You could try to ELevate the system, but Sandeep (a CWP dev) recommends against it (it can introduce inexplicable oddities). The best course is to install a fresh AlmaLinux 8 system and use CWP Migration to move all accounts, sites, and e-mails over to the new server. If you are very knowledgeable, you could try to manually migrate to AlmaLinux 8 or 9:

You should be able to manually migrate, no problem. I just had to manually migrate my last CentOS 7 server to AlmaLinux 8 because I was continually encountering a bug with CWP Migration (even though it's worked just fine for me for other servers). You dump all DB to a single SQL file, on the new server create the user accounts you are replicating, load the DB SQL on the new server and rsync in all your files -- /home and /var/vmail. (Also move any conf you want to carry over -- CSF firewall, Roundcube, nginx vhosts, DNS zone files, etc.).

https://wiki.centos-webpanel.com/how-to-manually-import-emails

But the postfix DB, particularly the mailbox table has all the end user PW hashes stored. So recreating that DB on the new server will get you all the user PW you need. No need to recreate any mail user accounts or aliases. Also bring over the roundcube DB for a seamless mail experience. Just make sure their /var/vmail IMAP storage is in place and all the references will point appropriately. Voila!

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Installation / Re: Best solution for migrate active server from Centos 7 to another distro

« Last post by augsteyer on November 03, 2025, 07:33:50 AM »

Hmm, I think over the last few years the answer has become - "just use AI to do it". However, I do recommend that you are indeed an average sys admin or at least a below average one so that you can spot check, and guide your AI to do things safely.

Furthermore, a paid solution IDE will do a much better job at it than a regular free chat version. I tried a few, and Cursor is currently the best. Windsurf is lagging behind. Trae not even worth mentioning. You could also use Gemini CLI or Antropic CLI for this task.

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Dovecot / Can I Route Only Bounce-Back Emails to a Different Mailbox

« Last post by Andrew C on November 03, 2025, 07:16:54 AM »

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to figure out if there's a way in CWP Email to route only bounce-back emails to a separate mailbox without using the catch-all option.

What I want to do:

* Mailbox A → send and receives all normal incoming emails
* Mailbox B → receives only bounce-back / deliverable messages that were originally sent from Mailbox A

Basically, I want one mailbox for regular mail and another one dedicated strictly to bounce messages for the first mailbox only.

Has anyone done this in CWP, or know if this is even possible?

Thanks

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Apache / Re: rebuild vhosts

« Last post by setecabanas on November 03, 2025, 06:34:59 AM »

Thanks

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Installation / Re: Problems installing CWP 8 with MariaDB

« Last post by overseer on November 02, 2025, 02:25:03 PM »

The goal would be to have 2 concurrently running systems -- your live AL8 system and your newly migrated AL9 system. Then you just change the DNS to point to the new server to complete the migration. In my case, I had 2 VMs on the same host machine, IPs separated by only a couple of digits. I brought up the new system, tested it as best I could, then shut down the main production VM and changed the IP on the replacement VM. It was a seamless transition (1 min downtime), with only some housekeeping to tend to after the switch -- that didn't affect the clients at all. This way, if things go south you can always revert back to the previous VM with only ~1 min downtime.

(Even if you go the DNS route, with Cloudflare you are only talking about >5 min downtime, switching DNS back & forth.)

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Installation / Re: Problems installing CWP 8 with MariaDB

« Last post by Wonder on November 02, 2025, 01:30:11 AM »

No, not limited to just the website DB -- I do mean ALL DB (including the root_cwp database, postfix DB, roundcube DB). On the original server to be migrated, issue this command:

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mariadb-dump -u root -p --all-databases --system=users > all_DB.sqlThen SCP or rsync this all-inclusive SQL file over (it can be several GB large).
Then on the fresh AL9 system after re-creating all the user accounts, issue the reverse command to load in the DBs:

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mariadb -u root -p < /path/to/all_DB.sqlThis worked for my CentOS 7.9 to AlmaLinux 8 migration.

Justo, thank you!! That was it, that was the question I had. Logically, I thought it should be all the databases, but I wasn't sure, and I wasn't certain. Perhaps restoring those databases from another version of CWP wouldn't be possible in a clean installation.

But what you've told me has saved my life in case I migrate (I still have to decide whether to migrate a production server from CWP8 to CWP9... I don't want that server to fail for any reason). Like I said, this was exactly the information I needed. I'm extremely grateful.

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CentOS-WebPanel Bugs / Re: Issues with PHP version swither (php_switch_v2)

« Last post by Linux on November 01, 2025, 04:56:37 PM »

There no 'fix', Because there is NO problem that can be duplicated...

Just because you don't have the knowledge or have something setup wrong to get it working doesn't make it a 'bug'.

PHP Version Switcher and PHP-FPM Selector (Paid Version of CWP) work perfectly fine on all of the AL9 servers on our network.

Insulting @overseer or any of us that come on here and help users, you are the reason we have stopped bothering helping...

Open a support ticket with CWP, because I doubt your going to get anymore help here...

I didn't insult anyone. If you or others felt that way I apologize.

Helping others is hard, I know that because in the past (10+ years ago) I was active on a hardware forum trying to help.

I learned that sometimes you have to be "in the skin" of the one that needs to be helped to fully understand the issue. Many times I skipped that and users were not happy. I feel you. Maybe you didn't understand my frustration.

Thanks again!

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Backup / Re: backup issues - it was not possible to make the ssh connection

« Last post by MarioG on November 01, 2025, 04:50:06 PM »

I had a similar issue.  I have firewalls in place on 2 hosts but made sure everything required between the two was in place, and was able to ssh at the CLI from source host to destination host, and CWP kept telling me there was an error in testing the ssh connection.  Then I switched to SFTP, and it tested and worked fine. 

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CentOS-WebPanel Bugs / Re: Issues with PHP version swither (php_switch_v2)

« Last post by Linux on November 01, 2025, 04:49:48 PM »

1. There are no errors. Please show us the whole log of the php compilation process.

2. To fix uploadprogress try to do following:

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cd /usr/local/src/
rm -rf uploadprogress*
wget https://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress
tar -xvzf uploadpogress-2*
cd uploadpogress*
phpize
configure
make
make install


2. Thank you, I think that fixed the issue with uploadprogress module! After this fix I said maybe a migration would not be bad...
1. The server with the issue was migrated to a new server where php_switch_v2 compiled successfully php 8.1.33. I don't know what could be the issue but for the moment more time invested in this problem is not worth it.

Thanks to all that had constructive replies.

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CentOS-WebPanel Bugs / Re: Can't update linux OS because of mysql-common

« Last post by Starburst on November 01, 2025, 04:30:17 PM »

More than likely you have a LAMP installed and that's why you are having problems with the DB and PHP...