Please find Step by Step Instructions to move your Website from HELM Server to Plesk Server:
1. Make sure you have followed previous article and got your Service Plans Created in Plesk.
2. Once done, Add Customer Account and Website as Subscription under your customer account.
3. Get your Files downloaded from HELM server via FTP using details you created under HELM control panel.
4. If you have mysql or mssql databases, Please download the same
to download mysql Database from HELM Server, open phpmyadmin at: http://mysql5.hosttrue.comand login with your database username and password and export the database from there.
to download MSSQL Database from HELM Server we recommend you get MSSQL Management Studio on your computer and connect to MSSQL database on HELM Server use Server name as: mssql.hosttrue.com,1533 (where 1533 is port to connect to MSSQL Server).
5. Once you get all the backups downloaded, start uploading to new server
6. To FTP files to new server, use FTP hostname as: 184.173.16.160 and FTP username & Password as you ceated while adding domain on Server.
7. After connecting to FTP browse to httpdocs folder and delete index.html file from there and then upload all of your files which you downloaded from HELM Server.
8. if you have mysql or MSSQL database to move, login to PLESK and click on Domains in left panel.
9. Click on "Open in Control Panel" in front of the Particular website name which you are moving, that will open Plesk control panel for that particular domain in a new Tab or Window.
10. in the New window, click on Website & Domain tab on top, and then on next screen you will find various options along with Databases option, clicking on which will take you to page where you can first create your required database and then Database user for that Database.
11. Once database and database user is created the option "Database Web Admin" will get activated and you can click on that one to get access to your Database on Browser, where you can upload your database backup file to restore your database.
NOTE: To create Database connection in your code use following details:
MySQL Hostname as: mysql.hosttrue.in
MSSQL Server Name as: sql.hosttrue.in
to access standalone phpmyadmin you can open http://mysql.hosttrue.in
also if you want to Access your MSSQL Database using MSSQL Management Studio, you can do the same by putting Server Name as: sql.hosttrue.in,1533 (1533 is the port no. required to Access MSSQL Database externally).
12. Once you get all your content and database moved to new server and get your code changed to have access to database on new server, you can use the following url structure to give a trial run to your website to see if everything is perfect.
https://.184-173-16.160.webpreview.hosttrue.in
13. After you get everything checked, you can create Email accounts in Plesk by clicking on Mail Tab when you open the Websites control panle from Domain List page.
14. so once all is set you are ready to switch Name Servers of your domain name, so to do the same, you can put name server values as:
Primary Name Server: ns1.hosttrue.in
Secondary Name Server: ns2.hosttrue.in
NOTE: if you are using or if you want use your own Private Name Server, you can do the same at your domain control panel by using the IPs which you can get when you Ping the name servers above.
