Change hostdata to another directory

[Nextus]

pretty much what the title says
i would like to change the hostdata to another directory. preferably a networked location so if i need to add more storage, i can do so. any help?

[Me.B]

You can do a symbolic link to the network storage you target? But notice you need to have a fast san otherwise it will blow out in performance.

[TGates]

this can also be changed much easier in Module Admin>Apache Config>Vhosts Directory:

[Nextus]

this can also be changed much easier in Module Admin>Apache Config>Vhosts Directory:

perfect. and yes. we have a gb switch as our backbone as well as our SAN. we have 8tb (16tb) running in raid 5 for redundancy. we should be ok with that speed. plus the server has 2 nic's. 1 www facing and the other internal so it wont get clogged up with traffic.

[Nextus]

but changing the hostdata, will that affect the FTP locations at all? or will that be corrected on the next cron job?

[Me.B]

both solutions should affect FTP/Cron/http.

But notice emails are in: /var/zpanel/vmail.

So it might be better if you want to host all email + web on SAN to use symbolic link for /var/zpanel/

M B

[Castey]

I think, You will need to manually change homedir in ftpuser.zpanel_proftpd (table ftpuser in zpanel_proftpd database) for existing users and change location in script for creating new users.

[Nextus]

thanks castey. that is exactly what i needed to know.

[TGates]

@[Nextus], please mark as 'best answer' if solved. Thanks!