https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2009/04/21/i-love-apache/ Thoughts, rants, and even some code from the mind of Barney Boisvert. Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2009/04/21/i-love-apache/comment-page-1/#comment-193815 Jamie Krug Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:35:14 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/?p=859#comment-193815 Thanks once again, as I just found my way back to this post :) I used this trick in an inverse fashion... A friend wanted to move their WordPress sites away from GoDaddy shared hosting to a VPS. I have the virtual host on the new VPS server proxy to the old/current shared hosting and pointed the DNS to the new box. Once DNS has had a fair amount of time to propagate, I can cut-over by setting the doc root instead of proxy to old server. This is necessary because I don't have permission to proxy from GoDaddy shared hosting (at least I assume, but could have tried it from .htaccess, but doubt they'd allow open proxies by shared hosting customers). Cheers. Thanks once again, as I just found my way back to this post :) I used this trick in an inverse fashion… A friend wanted to move their WordPress sites away from GoDaddy shared hosting to a VPS. I have the virtual host on the new VPS server proxy to the old/current shared hosting and pointed the DNS to the new box. Once DNS has had a fair amount of time to propagate, I can cut-over by setting the doc root instead of proxy to old server. This is necessary because I don't have permission to proxy from GoDaddy shared hosting (at least I assume, but could have tried it from .htaccess, but doubt they'd allow open proxies by shared hosting customers). Cheers.

]]> https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2009/04/21/i-love-apache/comment-page-1/#comment-174534 Jamie Krug Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:20:38 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/?p=859#comment-174534 Barney, this is brilliant, and yet so simple! The DNS has always been the one thing that I felt I had virtually no control over when cutting over a server. This nice little trick gives you the power to make an *instant* controlled cut-over. I can't wait to cut a site over to a new server now ;-) Barney, this is brilliant, and yet so simple! The DNS has always been the one thing that I felt I had virtually no control over when cutting over a server. This nice little trick gives you the power to make an *instant* controlled cut-over. I can't wait to cut a site over to a new server now ;-)

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