Hello,
We're about to migrate from vB 4.2 to XF2 and i am little bit unsure how to correctly proceed with the URL redirection. To minimize the downtime our migration scenario is as follows:
- Install XF2 (A) and prepare the basic settings (not touching users, forums, groups, etc...)
- Install XF 1.5 and don't touch anything here
- Import vB 4.2 DB into XF1.5 and archive the import log
- Upgrade the XF 1.5 to XF2 (B)
- Import the upgraded XF2 (B) into the prepared XF2 (A) ... So we will be actually doing two imports.
First question is if this is possible or if we should avoid this kind of approach and just do vB->XF1.5->XF2 and then start messing with the configuration.
If the above is possible then i wonder how should i proceed with the archived import data? Will this be "imported" as well from XF2(B) to XF2(A)? If yes should i use the archived log from this second import or do we need to dump&import the first import log from vB4->XF1.5 ?
Also i wonder for what the "vBulletin 4.x URL Redirection 1.0.0" actually is? Is this something from before the "import log" so we don't need to bother or should we use this in the middle of the process (on XF 1.5). I haven't found such thing for XF2 (so i suppose this is really obsolete solution and the import log will do the trick as described here .
Thank you in advance for clarifying this.
Alex
We're about to migrate from vB 4.2 to XF2 and i am little bit unsure how to correctly proceed with the URL redirection. To minimize the downtime our migration scenario is as follows:
- Install XF2 (A) and prepare the basic settings (not touching users, forums, groups, etc...)
- Install XF 1.5 and don't touch anything here
- Import vB 4.2 DB into XF1.5 and archive the import log
- Upgrade the XF 1.5 to XF2 (B)
- Import the upgraded XF2 (B) into the prepared XF2 (A) ... So we will be actually doing two imports.
First question is if this is possible or if we should avoid this kind of approach and just do vB->XF1.5->XF2 and then start messing with the configuration.
If the above is possible then i wonder how should i proceed with the archived import data? Will this be "imported" as well from XF2(B) to XF2(A)? If yes should i use the archived log from this second import or do we need to dump&import the first import log from vB4->XF1.5 ?
Also i wonder for what the "vBulletin 4.x URL Redirection 1.0.0" actually is? Is this something from before the "import log" so we don't need to bother or should we use this in the middle of the process (on XF 1.5). I haven't found such thing for XF2 (so i suppose this is really obsolete solution and the import log will do the trick as described here .
Thank you in advance for clarifying this.
Alex