Migrate a Drupal site with CiviCRM from a custom LAMP environment to Virtualmin (2/2)

On the first part of this tutorial, we have covered the following tasks:

• Install Virtualmin
• Migrate files and databases from another server
• Configure a vhost and set user quotas (disk space)
• Install several versions of PHP
• Finetune php.ini and install common extensions
• Install a SSL certificate
• Troubleshooting

On this part, we will see how to

• Configure backup of databases and files: manually and via cron, locally and on another storage (like AWS)
• Configure basic monitoring of the services
• Disable unused services on startup (like FTP)
• Enable new services on startup (like Solr)
• Create a virtual host configuration template
• Handle 301 redirects without altering your local Drupal .htaccess

Backups

Per virtual host database backup

Select a virtual host then Edit databases > Manage > Backup database
Here you can configure a simple local backup, via cron or manually.

Backup all the virtual hosts files and databases

Virtualmin tab > Backup and Restore > Backup Virtual Servers

Configuration files

Webmin tab > Webmin > Backup Configuration Files

Monitoring

Webmin > Others > System and Server Status

Create a virtual host configuration template

Virtualmin tab > System Settings > Server Templates

Handle 301 redirects without altering your local Drupal .htaccess

Virtualmin tab > System Settings > Server Templates

Administer.

Virtualmin tab > System Settings > Server Templates > Settings for Sub-servers > Edit template section > Apache website

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