Migrating from invisionpower to vanilla
Hi, I have topics were created in IPB forum and users were registered in that forum also, under a domain. I want to migrate them all to another domain under vanilla. I don't want anyone loses his access details. I have a backup of database and files. Any support would be highly appreciated.
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OptionsUnderDog MVP
If you're able to install Invison and restore the backup, that would help. If not:
Make a dump of the structure of Vanilla database (use phpMyAdmin)
Compare the tables of the Vanilla Database with that of the Invision database
Be creative, because Invision doesn't have a table called 'discussions', but might have a table called 'threads', so sompare those 2 tables.
You can use a program called 'WinMerge' for that, or just stick 2 notepad instances next to each other.
Now you know which columns match for the Vanilla Database.
Let's see if you're up for that and go for the next step then...There was an error rendering this rich post.
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The migration goes via the Porter Plugin.
You have to place the Vanilla Porter file in the Invision Power installation, if you can and then let the Porter Plugin create a file.
If you only have the backup and can not install Invision somewhere, just tell that in this topic please :-)
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I only have the backup of files and database
If you're able to install Invison and restore the backup, that would help. If not:
Make a dump of the structure of Vanilla database (use phpMyAdmin)
Compare the tables of the Vanilla Database with that of the Invision database
Be creative, because Invision doesn't have a table called 'discussions', but might have a table called 'threads', so sompare those 2 tables.
You can use a program called 'WinMerge' for that, or just stick 2 notepad instances next to each other.
Now you know which columns match for the Vanilla Database.
Let's see if you're up for that and go for the next step then...
There was an error rendering this rich post.
Thank you @UnderDog