1. You should be able to do something with a varnish node to proxy to the correct server based on the query.
2. Well if curl and wget is all you have that's what you'd end up using with just grabbing a mirror I guess. Does the vendor not provide you with disaster recovery backups for the blackbox system? If it does you could try to dissect one of those files and see if you can get what out need out of that. I've ported a lot of systems to new control panels or vanilla boxes from the backups alone. It's not too complicated to do. Another thing to consider is using the CMS to pull out the pages 1 at a time to put them into your new solution via plain old copy and paste. It'd be a PITA but would would probably get you a better port over than the wget mirror idea. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > $work (a school district) purchased a CMS/website black box hardware > solution 5 years ago from $oldvendor. The solution stores everything in a > mysql database, has a bad frontend to make changes, and runs our main > website along with 30 smaller sites. We have purchased a new hosted > solution from $newvendor and are now looking for options/caveats on > migrating where $oldvendor is not willing to provide us access to the > database and black box hardware. In addition folks want to move the main > site this summer and move the secondary (school sites) later one by one. > Problems that I have are: > > 1. best way to move part of domain.com while not moving the rest of > domain.com and figuring out a way to make this as transparent as possible > to the end users. > > 2. best way to move a site where you do not have access to the site other > than wget. > > Ideas I have so far is to use wget to create a static site that I can > control and change links on so we pages move to the new site I can point to > them. Other idea is perhaps to use redirects, but I am not sure they could > be used to redirect each page on the site. > > Are there any tools for doing this sort of thing? > > Thanks very much for your ideas and things I should watch out for. > > cheers, > > ski > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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