{"id":18418,"date":"2015-03-22T19:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T05:18:46","slug":"php-to-node-js-migration-retaining-your-cpanel-e-mail-account-while-dns-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/php-to-node-js-migration-retaining-your-cpanel-e-mail-account-while-dns-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP to Node.JS Migration – Retaining Your Cpanel E-Mail Account While DNS Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hello folks,<\/div>\n
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If you are here on this blog, you might be searching for the ways to migrate your existing PHP website to Node.js<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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In this blog i will try to explain, how you can point your existing domain to nodejs hosting and keep using the cpanel hosting for managing emails for your domain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
To start with, you will have to make sure of the following things:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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  1. You have an existing linux cpanel hosting (shared\/dedicated).<\/li>\n
  2. You have hosted your nodejs application on some other hosting provider such as heroku\/clever-cloud.<\/li>\n
  3. You want the contents should be served from the nodejs hosting.<\/li>\n
  4. You want the email accounts which you have been using should work as it is.<\/li>\n
  5. You have an existing domain name registered say via Godaddy, example:\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com<\/li>\n
  6. Your nodejs application has a domain say\u00a0<\/span>mynodewebsite.herokuapp.com<\/li>\n
  7. Your Name Server for\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>points to your existing cpanel hosting say\u00a0<\/span>ns1.cpanelhosting.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    So now you want that\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>should point to heroku server i.e.\u00a0<\/span>mynodewebsite.herokuapp.com<\/div>\n

    Work to be done:<\/p>\n

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    1. Add your domain name in the alias of your project in nodejs hosting , i.e. add\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>as alias in your heroku account for the\u00a0<\/span>mynodewebsite.herokuapp.com<\/li>\n
    2. The DNS of\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>will have to be changed from your cpanel hosting (not from your domain registrar eg: godaddy)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Steps to follow:<\/div>\n

      For the first part i.e. adding custom domain to your nodejs app, steps are really easy.<\/p>\n

      For Heroku hosting:<\/p>\n

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      1. Goto your dashboard.<\/li>\n
      2. Click on the application which you want to add custom domain.<\/li>\n
      3. Click on settings on top right.<\/li>\n
      4. Scroll down a bit, Click on Edit in the Custom Domain.<\/li>\n
      5. Add both\u00a0<\/span>mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>over there<\/li>\n
      6. Click on Save, Thats It!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        For the Second Part which is a little tricky but still easy to do.<\/div>\n

        What do you need for this?<\/p>\n

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        1. The ip address of the nodejs hosting website on which it resides.<\/li>\n
        2. Your main domain name.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          To get the ip address of your nodejs hosting, try to ping it from your console\/command prompt.<\/p>\n

          Alternatively you can take the help of websites which would give you the ip address of any website, for eg\u00a0https:\/\/www.site24x7.com\/find-ip-address-of-web-site.html<\/p>\n

          Just put in the url of your nodejs app url say\u00a0mynodewebsite.herokuapp.com\u00a0and it will show you the ip address of it. Copy that ip address to clipboard!<\/p>\n

          Steps to change your current DNS for main domain:<\/p>\n

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          1. Log into your Cpanel hosting, usually via\u00a0<\/span>cpanel.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>by providing login credentials.<\/li>\n
          2. Scroll down till you find heading as DOMAINS.<\/li>\n
          3. Click on Advance DNS Zone Editor.<\/li>\n
          4. Select the domain name from the drop down over there.<\/li>\n
          5. Scroll down to the Zone File Records.<\/li>\n
          6. Now you have to change 2 things over here, the Type A record and the cname record for your main domain.<\/li>\n
          7. Click on edit in the row where its shows your main domain eg:\u00a0<\/span>mydomainname.com.<\/li>\n
          8. You will have to change the ip address listed over there with the one which you just copied for your nodejs hosting.<\/li>\n
          9. Save the record and scroll down where it says\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>.<\/li>\n
          10. You will have to change it CNAME for this record from\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>mynodewebsite.herokuapp.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            Tada!!! you are done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
            Now whenever you will open\u00a0<\/span>www.mydomainname.com\u00a0<\/span>it will point to your herokuapp hosting and the fun part is that your email\/ftp account for your existing cpanel will not get affected from this migration \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Hello folks, If you are here on this blog, you might be searching for the ways to migrate your existing PHP website to Node.js. In this blog i will try to explain, how you can point your existing domain to nodejs hosting and keep using the cpanel hosting for managing emails for your domain. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0},"categories":[1185,1],"tags":[1704,1702,596,1224,260,1703,1124,1701],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}