Consolidating servers

Need help consolidating servers...

[m12P1mp]

I have two different web servers.. two different sites on the same network. (intranet)

My goal is to consolidate these two servers into one. Just how can I do that..? Copy and move all sites (folders) to new server.?

Questions that I have are:

-how to get folder permissions to transfer over?
-Broken links/Database connections
-(Do I have to manually correct each link)

I'm sure there are other things I need to be concerned with too.. soo any feedback is welcomed..

Thanks

[ballygobackwards]

Without knowing your intranet setup it's hard to speculate. However here goes ;)

Firslty to copy a website from one server to another is as easy as copying a folder and changing your DNS settings.

In answer to your specific questions :

1. Depends on which platform your site is hosted so i can't say.

2. Broken links will depends upon how your site was built, i.e. with relative or absolute links. It will also depend upon whether your Intranet uses a DNS or simply the server name. As for the database you can either leave this where it is and point to it from your new server or transfer it to your new server though you will have to change the way your site finds the DB to talk to, again this depends on your platform.

3. As mentioned it (2) it depends on how your links have been built, relative you should be ok, absolute you'll have to rename the links depending if your using your server name in your intranet or DNS.

Hope that helps a bit, but without specifics it's very hard to speculate.

[mack]

If both your servers are located localy then merging all content onto one server should be fairly painless.

The first thing I woudl do is to move user accounts from your server that is going, onto the server that is remaining. At this point it i pretty importaint to make sure you do not have any duplicate entries, this woudl seriously confuse things.

Once you have the entire user base for both servers on your main server you can then start working on user folders.

On linux you woudl simple be abe to make a ter file containing the entire /home directory. You can then ftp or wget this onto the other server across your local network.

From there you can then unpack this into it's new home. If you created the accounts on the main server correctly (the way they where on the old server) then you shoudl be unpackng the files right into their home directories.

Mack.