XF 1.3 Import from another 1.3 xenforo board

[giorgino]

Importing the old 1.3 board into the new 1.3 board, I get this errors...

• The data directory could not be found.
• The internal data directory could not be found.

I'm sure that the path is correct (pwd check).

> pwd
/home/myforum/public_html/data

What's wrong?

 

[Paul B]

The path isn't correct.

Check phpinfo in the ACP to determine the absolute path.

 

[giorgino]

The path isn't correct.

Check phpinfo in the ACP to determine the absolute path.

mmm... how? I don't understand what you mean Brogan

 

[Paul B]

Navigate to admin.php?tools/phpinfo and search for DOCUMENT_ROOT to get the absolute path of your XenForo installation.

 

[giorgino]

Navigate to admin.php?tools/phpinfo and search for DOCUMENT_ROOT to get the absolute path of your XenForo installation.

Oh Thanks, this is the result

_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]    /home/myforum/public_html

The path (/home/myforum/public_html/data) seems correct to me...

 

[Mike]

You're importing data from an install in the root?

It could be a permission error as well. (If it can't be read, it's as if it doesn't exist.)

 

[giorgino]

No I'm importing a 1.3 xenforo installation from /home/myoldforum/ to /home/mynewforum.
Same server CentOS/WHM/Cpanel.

 

[Paul B]

In which case the path needs to include /myoldforum prior to /data.

 

[Mike]

If you're sure the path is right (based on @Brogan's previous comment), then you need to look at the permission situation as well.

 

[giorgino]

I'm sure for the path... but I don't figure out how to set the permission... perhaps 777?

 

[Mike]

It may be down to the permissions of parent directories. If you don't have root, you won't be able to deal with it.

TBH, the easiest thing may be to simply copy the data over so they're all in the same home directory.

 

[giorgino]

simply copy the data over so they're all in the same home directory

Perfect workaround
Thanks