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All,
I want to move an existing web site from one IIS server to another in the same domain.
Does anyone know the least painful way of doing this? I cannot find any documented procedure that addresses this.
Many thanks,
Joe
by cdcents
This should be fairly straightforward.
1. Transfer the data to the "new" server
2. Create a web site on the "new" server and disable it.
3. Change DNS entry, start the new site and stop the old one.
This is of course the best case scenario. Ifyou have firewall rules they will need to be modified. If you have address translation at the firewall you will have to add the "new" IP address to the FW ARP cache and stop and start the firewall (Checkpoint) service.
If you are maintaining the same IP address on the new server then you are likely to have some outage while you first define the IP address on the "new" server (reboot required after this) and then remove the IP from the old server (reboot here as well) and then associate the website with the IP address. If you need more help just reply and I will help you out.
CD
by joemoran
by mjuhrig
if there is going to be an I.P. address change, setup the new site on the new server and create an alias for that website at the new server like www2.123.com at the old site
redirect the site from www.123.com to www2.123.com that will force a new dns lookup and the user will be directed to the new site. change the dns for www.123.com to point to the new site you do it this way because dns cache will keep pointing to the old site till the TTL runs out. then in a few days you can remove the redirect and the whole thing is seamless to the users
by joemoran
by joemoran
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