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Control Web Panel (CWP) is suited for email and web virtual hosting.  Creating a greenfield domain should be straight forward.  However, if you want to migrate existing site and emails to CWP based server use following steps.

=Creating account=
To create account which will maange the domain use:
# Go to User accounts -> New account
# Enter various details such as domain name, Username, etc.
#: Package can be default
#: Disable backup of user account
#: Optionally enable "AutoSSL: Domain must be pointed to the server"
#: Under Packages -> Packages, we can see and create different packages as per requirement.  
# Note down the Account details shown on next page
#: Note that main domains are not listed on domains -> List domains page.  They are part of Accounts -> List Accounts page
# Open the CWP panel for newly created user in new browser tab.  https://<fqdn>:2083/
# Go to "Email Accounts" -> "Add a new mailbox"
#: Enter the desired password and click Add
# Go to "Email Accounts" -> "Roundcube wemail"
#: We can access the email via https://<FQDN>:2031/roundcube/
#: Login with full email ID and password of user created above


=Migrate website=
# Login to CWP server using SSH
# Go to /home/<user>/public_html
# Rename index.html to index.html-old and create a new index.html file
# Create /etc/hosts entry to point <domain> and www.<domain> to the CWP public IP
# Open http://<domain> and validate that new index.html page is showing up properly
#: No need to add www.<domain> Subdomain.  That is done by default.
# Open http://www.<domain> and validate that new index.html page is showing up properly
# Copy old domain web-root data to new server /home/<user>/public_html and check if site is working properly.  For old document root execute
#:<pre>
#:: rsync -vtrp --delete ./ root@<fqdn>:/home/<user>/public_html/
#:</pre>
# SSH to CWP server and set correct owner:
#:<pre>
#:: cd /home/<user>/public_html
#:: chown -R <user>:<user> .
#:: chmod -R g-w .
#:</pre>
# If the site is still not opening then via CWP of <user> go to "File management" -> "Log viewer" and look at "Error Log" for the domain or subdomain


=General SSL and redirect from http to https=
# If site opens properly continue by 
## Comment /etc/host entries created earlier
## Change public dns of <domain> to point to shared public IP of CWP server.
##: Update only A record.  Note that CWP does not supports AAAA properly.
## Go to CWP of root.  Go to "Webserver Settings" -> "SSL certificates".  Go to "AutoSSL (FREE)" tab.  Select <user> and select "All Domains".  Click "Install SSL" 
## Go to "List installed" tab and validate that certificate got installer.
# Check the site via https://<domain> and https://www.<domain> from a different browser
# If automatic redirect from non-www to www and from http:// to http:// is desired use [[Redirecting site using apache configuration]] based options in /home/<user>/public_html/.htaccess
#: For example
#::<pre>
#::: RewriteEngine On
#::: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.rekallsoftware.com$ [NC]
#::: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rekallsoftware.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#::: 
#::: RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
#::: RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
#::</pre>
# Then set permissions using:
#:<pre>
#:: chown <user>:<user> .htaccess
#:</pre>


=Migrate email=
# Let us sync email from existing email server to new server using [[CentOS 7.x imapsync syntax]]
## SSH to CWP server as root and use
##:<pre>
##:: yum -y install imapsync
##:</pre>
## Sync a test user email using imapsync command
## Sync all other users using imapsync -- Might requires all user passwords
# After all data is migrated change MX records of email server to point to new server
#: Do not use AAAA as CWP does not support IPv6 
# Also make sure mail, webmail, ftp and cpanel subdomains point to new server via A or CNAME record
#: No need to add these subdomains.  These are available by default.
# Go to CWP of root.  Go to "Web server settings" -> "SSL certificates".
# Click on Admin services and enable all four
# Send test incoming and outgoing emails
# Validate ability to check email via email client such as thunderbird or outlook

==Email security settings==
# Go to Email Accounts -> DKIM Manager.  Click "Edit Records".  See the value for default._domainkey and create the same TXT record in public DNS.  Later validate that DKIM test is passing on the same page (Email Accounts -> DKIM Manager)
# Go to Email -> Email Aliases/Forwarder.  Create a catch-all account by creating alias for * pointing to one of the users.
#: Test this by sending email to no-such-user@domain.com id
# Go to Email -> Mailserver manager
## Select "AntiSpam/AntiVirus (recommended): " and "Install DKIM & SPF (recommended): "
## "Rebuild Mail Server"
## "Restart All Mail server services"
# Send test incoming and outgoing emails and validate
# Go to Email -> Antispam.  Click on "Install Spamhaus"
# Again test emails by sending and receiving.  Have a look at "Show original" to see which modules (DKIM, SPF, etc.) are working properly for outgoing and incoming validation
# shutdown old email server and delete it after a few days




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