The part 1 of this 2-part series of copying add-on domains to new cPanel accounts involved outlining and discussing of the first four steps, which included creating backups, creating new accounts, extracting the backups, and importing the databases.

In this second and final part of the series, it will contain the remaining 6 steps, including updating the cron paths all the way to copying all your email account information. Just follow the remaining steps and you will have your add-on domains copied to your new accounts in no time.

Step 5. Updating your cron paths.

Follow these steps to update your new account’s cron paths:

Locate and open your /home/backup-$username/$username/cron/$username file. Make sure that you find all …show more content…
These include emails, auto responders, forwarders, and filters.

To perform this task, run these commands right after you open the /home/backup-$username/$username directory:

cp va/$addonname /etc/valiases/ cp vf/$addonname /etc/vfilters/ cp homedir/.autorespond/*$addonname* /home/$newusername/.autorespond/ cp -R homedir/etc/$addonname /home/$newusername/etc/ cp -R homedir/mail/$addonname /home/$newusername/mail/

Once you have finished copying the data, you need to change the ownership of the files once again and hand them over to the new user. Just run these commands to complete this part:

chown $newusername:mail /etc/valiases/$addonname chown $newusername:mail /etc/vfilters/$addonname chown $newusername:$newusername /home/$newusername/.autorespond/*$addonname* find /home/$newusername/etc -uid 0 -exec chown $newusername:mail {} + find /home/$newusername/mail -uid 0 -exec chown $newusername:mail {} +

As final reminders, you need to ensure that you keep the wildcards through passing the asterisks on any side of the $addonname. Also, once you have changed file ownership, establish that you can still log in to the Webmail