Change Domain Name for cPanel Account from SSH Terminal


This article provides a quick workaround for changing the primary domain name of a cPanel account. Root level access is required.

In the case that the cPanel account domain name should be quickly modified (such as raddomain.net -> raddomain.com), the following procedure can solve the issue.

Prerequisites

  • Requires full root access
  • cPanel installed on server
  • Recent backup of account which is to be modified (in this example, the account backup is located in /home/backupuser/backup.tar.gz)

Procedure

As root user, access the server via SSH and run the following commands:

/scripts/removeacct --force username
/scripts/restorepkg --force --ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /home/backupuser/backup/cpmove-username.tar.gz
mv /var/cpanel/userdata/username/username.com /var/cpanel/userdata/username/username.net
mv /var/cpanel/userdata/username/username.com.cache /var/cpanel/userdata/username/username.net.cache
sed -i -e 's/username\.com/username\.net/g' /var/cpanel/userdata/username/username.net 
rm -f /var/cpanel/userdata/username/cache
sed -i -e 's/username\.com/username\.net/g' /var/cpanel/userdata/username/main
rm -f /var/cpanel/userdata/username/main.cache
sed -i -e 's/username\.com/username\.net/g' /var/cpanel/users/username
mv /var/named/username.com.db /var/named/username.net.db
sed -i -e 's/username\.com/username\.net/g' /var/named/username.net.db
sed -i -e 's/username\.com/username\.net/g' /etc/named.conf
/scripts/updateuserdomains
/scripts/updateuserdatacache --force username
/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
/scripts/restartsrv_apache
rndc reload
#Changing Password
export ALLOW_PASSWORD_CHANGE=1
/scripts/chpass username myhardpassword
#Synching FTP pass
/scripts/ftpupdate

Use the following guidelines for creating the above commands with your custom data:

  • Substitute the cPanel account username for "username"

  • Substitute the IP Address for "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
  • Substitute existing domain name for "username.net"

  • Substitute the new domain name for "username.com"

  • Substitute the cPanel account password for "myhardpassword"
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