XF 1.1 How to migrate from old forums

[avi]

How do you guys actually migrate ?

1. Say my forum link is xyz.com and it is running mybb. Now I will set abc.com with xenforo on same host and then I will change its board URL back to xyz.com once I have done all conversion & made required changes.

OR

2. I will set up xenforo on computer & then I will upload it to server later.

OR

Is there any another good / easy / preferred method ? How do you guys actually migrate ?

Thank you

 

[Floris]

example.com/index.php (index from mybb)
example.com/xenforo/index.php (sub dir for xenforo, with index from xenforo)

Convert from mybb to xenforo
When happy and you want to discontinue mybb and replace it with xenforo:

a) You can remove mybb and move xenforo to root, or
b) You can archive mybb into /old_mybb/ and move xenforo to root.

Move xenforo: before the move, board info > update the information.

on shell:

cd
mkdir old_mybb
cd public_html
mv * ../old_mybb
cd
cd public_html/xenforo
mv * ../
mv .htaccess ../

 

[Paul B]

1. Install XenForo in a temporary location
2. Configure it
3. Take a backup of XenForo
4. Take a backup of existing site
5. Close existing site
6. Import into XenForo
7. Configure user groups and permissions
8. Test fully
9. Move existing site to archive directory
10. Move XenForo to final directory
11. Update Board URL in XenForo
12. Open XenForo
13. Configure any .htaccess redirects as required
14. Enjoy

 

[avi]

Thank you very much

Okay, I set up at example.com/xenforo. And I imported from IPB. Now I want to configure my forum. I want to have portal page, user groups, custom user status etc & lots other customizations.

Say if I make all required changes now, like user permissions, custom status etc, then after that if I import the current up to date database, will I loosing all customizations ?

 

[Paul B]

If you have already imported then you can't import again as you will end up with duplicate content.

Which is why in the steps above I have step 2 as configure it.

 

[avi]

Oh, I get it. Thank you