This is my first time using Vanilla and I'm installing it for a client. She has almost a year's worth of forum posts/threads from her previous forum (phpBB) that she would like to move to her new Vanilla Forum.
Is this possible or does she just need to start from scratch?
Thanks,
Tammy
New Media Virtual Assistant
tammy@newmediava.com
703-348-7993
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •It would be nice to have at least a little page with the link to the last version of the "migrator" and an overview of the steps to follow. Maybe some hints and traps that appear in the main discussion too (as Outbreak wants people to read it).
Thanks in the name of all the people who will read you.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •A wiki is a community created thing, if theres something you don't see there then add it.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •I just thought that among the users of this migrator, someone would perhaps find some time to build a page. It's quite hard to read the big thread thoroughly and I think that a page in the wiki could be nice for people discovering it.
Sorry if I seem to come here abruptly and say "I WANT SOMEONE TO DO IT", I didn't mean that. I was just thinking loud.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Thanks for all the help so far!
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •All you need is your database name, username, password which either you or the person who set up the forum should have (or can obtain easily from the conf/database.php file in your vanilla install.
enter the db name, user, and pass into one file called "mysqldetails.php", which is provided.
Upload the entire folder to anywhere on your server
navigate to that folder in your browser and then click on the links in order.
You should get a message after you click on each link saying "XXXXX entries completed" and it gives you a link back to the main page to do the next step.
This is considering your vanilla install is on the same server/database as your old phpbb install...if not, there are a few extra steps.
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