Editing the Hosting Description File

The hosting description file can be written in the YAML or JSON format,
and contains the list of clients, subscriptions, addon domains,
mailboxes, etc. to be transferred from the source server. You can find
sample hosting description files here. This topic
describes how to configure a number of commonly used parameters to
ensure that the migration is successful.

Specifying the path to the web content data

To specify the path to the web content data, both on the source server
and the destination server, use the following parameters in the
subscriptions section:

• source_webspace_root - The absolute path to the directory
  containing all files available to the customer on the source server.
  Can be specified on the subscription level only (e.g.,
  /home/vhosts/example.com).
• source_document_root - The absolute path to the directory
  containing only the files served via HTTP. Can be specified on the
  subscription, addon domain, or subdomain levels (e.g.,
  /home/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs).
• target_document_root - The directory that will contain the files
  served via HTTP on the destination server. The path is relative to
  subscription’s root directory on the destination server. Can be
  specified on the subscription, addon domain, or subdomain levels
  (e.g., data/www. If the domain name is example.com, and the
  virtual hosts directory in Plesk is /var/www/vhosts, the absolute
  path to the document root directory on the destination will be
  /var/www/vhosts/example.com/data/www). If left unspecified, the
  Plesk default value will be used.

If you need to prevent specific directories or files from being
migrated, use the exclude directive with the
source_webspace_root and source_…