This article provides you with steps to migrate cPanel to Plesk Obsideon for Linux.




Preparation for cPanel to Plesk migration


To ensure your Plesk migration process is seamless to make sure that you have enough disk space on both cPanel and Plesk packages.




Backup Website files on cPanel


Step 1- Login to cPanel

  • Please see our article on logging into cPanel here.



Step 2 - Click on File Manager under your Files section.



Step 3 - Compress your website folder.



Step 4 - Download the compressed file to your computer by clicking on it in your File Manager.



Export database on cPanel


Step 1 - Click on phpMyAdmin  in the databases section 




Step 2 - Click on the database you are working within the left menu




Step 3 - Click Export in the tabs along the top of the screen.



Step 4 - Select Quick Method and click Go to export.



Upload website files to Plesk


Step 1- Login to Plesk.

  • Login with username and password received when you completed your subscription.




Step 2- Go to Domains -> File Manager.



Step 3- Select httpdocs then click Upload file

  • Upload the previously downloaded backup you made on your cPanel.




  • Once the upload completes, select the uploaded file and click extract files





Import database to Plesk

 


Step 1- Click on Databases

 

 

Step 2- Click on Add Database



Step 3- Complete Database details and click Save


 

Step 4 - Click on Import Dump and select your Database

  • Import your previously downloaded Mysql database from cPanel

 

 

Email Migration


Due to cPanel and Plesk being two different environments it's not possible to migrate the emails on server side. The only way to do this is to use IMAP sync. Below are the steps on hot to do this.



  • First make a backup of Outlook emails to make sure there's no data loss.



Step 1 - Open Outlook and click on file.






Step 2 - Select Open&Export and click Import /Export.





Step 3 - Click Export to File then Outlook Data File (.pst)







Step 4 - Select the mail folders to back up and select Next.




Step 4 - Choose the location to save the backup and click finish.



  • Migrate Emails using the IMAP method


Follow there steps: https://knowledge.1-grid.com/how-to-migrate-your-email-using-imap/