Moving NATS3

NATS 3 About NATS 3 NATS3 Requirements IPSP Integration NATS3 Changelog For Affiliates Affiliate Link Codes Affiliate Adtools Affiliate Rewards Affiliate Referral Stats Automatic Campaigns Affiliate Billing Info Deep Linking Affiliate Defaults Linkcode ASP Query String NATS3 Main Program Page TubeStudio Adtools Setup Apache Configuration MySQL Settings Creating Admin Accounts File Upload Setup Link Domain NATS3 Files and Directories NATS Go Live Checklist Moving NATS3 Admin Overview Troubleshoot Chart Director Fix Admin Overview Graphs Admin Reports Profit & Loss Report Strack Surfer Stats Chargeback and Credit Amount Inaccuracies Payments Admin Payment Dump Setting Up Pay Vias Hidden Payout Options Temporary Payout Payment Option Webmasterchecks Affiliate Payout Domestic Wire Instant Payments Intercash International Wire Moneybookers RevUpCard NATS Payments PayPal Payment Dump Entry Numbers Payment Dump Variables Payout Scales Epassporte Affiliates Admin Override ID Numbers Account Representatives Affiliate Starting Balance Affiliate Documents Affiliate Start Page Affiliate Referrals Manual Sale Manual Invoice Statistic Query Strings Creating Admin Accounts Affiliate-Specific Join Options Disabled and Banned Affiliates Verifying Account Changes Members Admin MySQL Auth Members Admin Member ID Numbers Expired Members Creating Trial Members Member Delete Member Logging Trial Member Sites Admin Sites Site Setup Configure Redirects ID Numbers Automail Site User Management Username Checking Join Form Errors Free Pre-Initial Checkbox Payouts Based on Program and Join Options Payouts Based on Join Option and Per Option Adding Extra Site Tours Site Partner Join Options Multisite Access Removing Join Options Tour Setup Site Undelete Join Option Box vs Button Redirecting Traffic to a Sponsor Qualified Join Page Hits Type-In Traffic Allowed languages Linkcode Decoding Programs Admin Programs Admin NATS Program Adding Programs ID Numbers Paid Trials Main Program Page Pay Per Click Pay Per Sale Revenue Share Program Default Payouts Referral Payout Tier Third Parties Admin Third Parties Chargeback and Credit Amount Inaccuracies AdultFriendFinder AdultFriendFinderAPI   AdultFriendFinder versus AdultFriendFinderAPI AllMightyContent CamSpot Cams DatingGold EffexMedia Gamelink Jettis International Third-Party Mallcom My Dirty Hobby SexGoesMobile (SGM) Streamate   Streamate Biller versus Third-Party VideoSecrets WebCamClub   WebCamClub with Biller WebCams XonDemand Adtools Admin Adding Adtools Linking to Join and Tour Pages Duplicate Site Adtools Banner Hot-Linking Adding RSS Feeds to NATS's Adtools Downloadable Adtool Bulk Importer Dump Hosted Galleries Hosted Adtool NATS Thumbnails TubeStudio Adtools Admin Billers Admin Biller Cascade NATS Cascades Adding Cascades Biller Cancel Promotions Cascade Weight Autocascade Hidden Cascades Geo-Targeting Cascades Type-In Cascade Post-Biller Templates Extra Biller Fields HTTPS Gateways Payment Deduction Timed Cascade Rules Multiple Biller Accounts Upgrade Plus Adding a Biller   Biller Instructions NATS3 Biller List 123Bill 365Billing 2000Charge Aconti Payment Service Allopass Ampay Argus Authorize.net Bill1st Gateway Billing Line BoaCompra Card Gate Plus CCBill CCBill Direct Pay CCBill Web900 Centrobill ChargeMeLater ClearCard ClearCard IDV Commerce Gate CurePay DHD Media E-Pay Company Edelweiss Card EGatePay ElectraCash EMerchantPay (Interconsult) EnterCharge Epoch EProcessingNetwork EuroBill EPGBill.com FABILLING Global Access GTBill GXBill HeidelPay HeidelPay Gateway iBill ICN Ltd. Infinity Payment Interconsult Jettis Jettis Gateway Jettis International Linkpoint LocalBilling Merchant Partners Gateway Merchant Partners Membership Merchant Solutions MyVirtualCard Netbilling Netbilling Native NetCash Netpay International NoCreditCard Oakbill Optimized Payment System Password by Phone Pay4 Paygea Payment Network Paysite Cash PhoneAccess Plug'n Pay PPPCard Probiller Protx Pure Vanilla RocketGate RocketGate Native RSBilling SafeCharge Secure Billing World SegPay Sonic Bill StandardBill Streamate Symmetrex TrustCash TrustCharge txtNation Ukash Universal Processing Verotel Pro VXSBill WebBilling WebPay WTS WTSeu YNOT Processing Zombaio Netbilling v3 Upgrade Instructions Purchasing Tokens Through Netbilling Streamate Biller versus Third-Party Switching From Epoch to Epoch EU Epoch Member Approval Plus Multiple Biller Accounts Popups Admin Popup Chain Price Cascade Rewards Admin Rewards Admin Reward Points Unshipping Rewards Cross-Sells Admin Cross Sells Admin Process Gateway Cross Sales Outside NATS Outgoing Gateway Cross Sales CCBill Cross-Selling Cross Sells: A to Z Mailing Admin NATS3 Mailing Admin Email Expired Members Repeating Email Member Cancel Emails Member Chargeback Emails Member Credit Emails Member Join Emails Member Rebill Emails Mailer Template Variables Skins & Templates Admin Smarty Plugins Skins Editing Skins Creating Skins Switching Skins Templates nats_code Affiliate Stats Template Affiliate Support Template Affiliate Login Template custom errors.php Template Array Variable Detailed Stats NATS Variables Dialer Statistics Affiliate Signup Post URL Variables Member Usernames & Passwords Output An Affiliate's Last Paid Date Custom Program and Campaign Selection Pages CAPTCHA Removal Username Recommendations Password Retrieval Post-Biller Templates Geo-Target Join Options Template Caching Random Usernames and Passwords Base Templates Protecting Template Data Mail Reseller Signup Template Variable Names Smarty Smarty print array News Section Templating Affiliate Signup Email Getting The NATSCode Checking for Usernames on All Sites Adding Stats to Affiliate Pages Affiliate Join Page Linkcodes   Template Functions nats_apache_note nats_convert_bytes nats_decode nats_encode nats_fhg nats_helper_row_fill nats_get_gateway_token nats_list_campaigns nats_list_programs nats_list_sites nats_my_decode_entities nats_my_encode_entities nats_smarty_function_ajax_box nats_smarty_function_amount_owed nats_smarty_function_gateway_xsell nats_smarty_function_getbonus nats_smarty_function_get_paid_date nats_smarty_rebuild_link nats_smarty_rebuild_query nats_smarty_function_reseller_ajax_box nats_tooltip nats_tour_report nats_wmref_list Template Shortcuts ajax_box amount_owed apache_note convert_bytes fhg gateway_xsell get_loginid_from_campaignid get_gateway_token get_paid_date list_campaigns list_programs list_sites new_gateway_xsell rebuild_link rebuild_query reseller_ajax_box reward_points tooltip tour_report wmref_list Common Parameters assign assign_prefix count data_only display_on_assign start tpl   Helper Functions nats_code nats_extract_program nats_extract_site nats_modify_program nats_modify_site Configuration Admin NATS3 Configuration Options Extra Country Options PayVia Minimum Log Admin Activity IP Address Filtering MEMBER EXPIRE PAD Second Sign-up Matching Affiliate Signup Email GeoIP Fake Upgrade Misc. Admins Database Cleanup Troubleshooting Common Errors Email_Issues Auto Login Emptying Forms AutoLogin Cookie CAPTCHA Changing Licenses Expired License Zend License NATS Extras Remote Affiliate Authentication Shopping Cart Sales Moving Tours, Members' Area, and Galleries Require W-9 Admin Areas Fraud Report NATS Content of the Day Module NATS Load Balancing Module Gallery Builder Module Build Your Own Anything Module NATS Code Wordpress Plugin Error_message_display TMMid

We at Too Much Media offer the service of moving your NATS installation to a new server; this can be done for a cost of $215. We recommend you use this service.

The following steps describe moving NATS on your own. If you perform a server move on your own, there will be an hourly charge for any support required. The rate for support is $150/hr

Note: these steps require some down time, but they guarantee database consistency and consistent service during the DNS switch-over.
Note: if you just want to change your NATS domain, please see the PROJECT_HOSTNAME configuration setting.

Please verify that the server to which you are moving NATS 3 meets the NATS 3 Requirements.

Please check the following wiki for mysql setup: NATS4_MySQL_Settings

- MySQL must also be accessible from the CLI, which may require changes to the my.cnf file

- Ensure that NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION is enabled

Set up NATS on the New Server

• Copy the NATS files to the new server. You can use the program rsync
• Please be sure to check to make sure all the correct symbolic links are set up in the nats/www/ directory. These symbolic links should be:

track
ttrack
ptrack
gtrack
strack
import_videos
gallery

• If any of these symbolic links are not available or not set up correctly in your nats/www/ directory, please put in a support ticket
• Get a NATS license for your new server. Please open a new ticket and tell us with the zendid if you are using Zend, or the MAC address if you are using IonCube
• If you have Zend, you may need to set up the path to the zend license in the php.ini by adding the following line:

zend_optimizer.license_path=/path to nats/licenses/

• Change the paths in the includes/config.php and includes/run_mailer_now.sh files to be correct on the new server.
  • Please make sure that the php mail function or the mail function that you are trying to use is working.
    • If you do use the Mailing Admin, you can test a mailer by going to the Mailing admin and click on the magnifying glass to view a Pending mail and click on the link that says "Click here to send a test of this mailing to yourself".
    • If you are using the emails for affiliates or members, please do signup and once the initial transaction has been processed, the member and affiliate should get the email.
• Change the MySQL connection information for the includes/config.php file on the new server so it can connect to the database on the original server. Test that NATS is working correctly using the IP address of the new server
• If you're including helper.php (located in includes/helper.php in NATS) in one of your pages, you'll need to update the include of header.php to the path on the new server.

At this point, NATS should work correctly on both servers and will use the database on the original server.

Moving the Database to the New Server

Your NATS program will be down during these steps.

• Shut down the database on the original server. This makes NATS stop working.
• Copy the database to the new server.
• Change the config.php file on the new server to use the new database and check that nats is working correctly.
• Change the config.php file on the original server to connect to the new server's database.

At this point, NATS should work correctly on both servers and will use the database on the new server.

If you use the NATS database for authentication, please ensure that you change your authentication to use the new database. Then test signing in to make sure everything is working properly.

Set up Crons and Billers

• Remove the NATS cron from the old server
• Set up a new cron on the new server; use the correct paths to nats and php:

*/15 * * * * cd /<nats_installation_dir>/www/signup; /path/to/php cronjobs.php;

Billers

• Tell your billers about your new IP address
• If you are using Epoch please have your host setup a new user on the new database and setup the following grants for the following tables:

grant insert, select on <database>.EpochTransStats to <username>@'<IP Address Range>' identified by '<password>';
grant insert, select on <database>.MemberCancelStats to <username>@'<IP Address Range>' identified by '<password>';
flush privileges;

• If you are using WTS, please tell them the new path to the work directory it should be: /<path to nats>/nats/work

Additional Updates to config.php

If you perform internal cross sales you will need to update the config.php/config_override.php file to use the IP address of the new server

• Update all XSELL_<biller>_SECURE_IPS variables to include the IP of the new server
• Remove the old servers IP address from all XSELL_<biller>_SECURE_IPS

Switch the DNS

• Have your host switch the DNS name to the new server.

note: please ensure your linkdomains are also changed to point at the new server. If the linkdomains are still pointing at the old server, your linkcodes and join forms will not work.

• Please open a new ticket when the DNS change is complete so we can update your NATS license.