Manually Move Addon Domain/Subdomain to Separate cPanel Account

Here we will cover how to move an Addon domain or Subdomain to its own cPanel account on a Reseller, VPS or Dedicated hosting account.

This process will cover how to use FTP to create the backup and restore it to the destination account. The FTP client used in this guide is FileZilla, but any FTP client should work.

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Moving the Files and Database

NOTE: This method covers how to manually move the files and database to a separate cPanel account. It is possible to have this done automatically via RootWHM as well. The automatic process requires a VPS+ hosting plan.
IMPORTANT: It is recommended to create a server snapshot or Full cPanel backup before making changes to cPanel accounts on the server.

1. Create a backup of the database
2. Create a backup of the website files
   1. If email needs to be transferred, make a backup of the /home/userna5/mail directory as well
      
3. Remove the Addon Domain/Subdomain from the original cPanel account
4. Create a new cPanel account in WHM for the Addon Domain/Subdomain
5. Connect via FTP to the new cPanel account with the cPanel username/password that was just created
6. Upload the website files via FTP to the public_html directory
   1. If you are transferring emails as well, upload the mail directory at this time
      1. Email accounts will need to be re-created in the new cPanel account
7. Import and restore the database using Phpmyadmin