XF 2.2 importing steps

[Olecoot]

Hello,
I'm setting up a new forum, and importing two Xenforo2.2 boards into it.
What are the step in order to do this?

1. What I've done is install the new forum on a clean VM
2. import one forum -- data - internal_data
3. import the 2nd forum -- data - internal_data
4. upload the databases.
5. then I get "The site is currently being upgraded. Please check back later."

I've done this before and everything went well. but for the life of me I can't get it right this time and what notes I took are lost.

Thanks
OC

 

[Paul B]

Step 1 is correct, the remaining steps aren't.

After installing XF, download and install the importer add-on.

Then navigate to the importer section in the ACP and import from there.

The database and files for the forum to be imported will need to be on the same server.

 

[Olecoot]

Step 1 is correct, the remaining steps aren't.

After installing XF, download and install the importer add-on.

Then navigate to the importer section in the ACP and import from there.

The database and files for the forum to be imported will need to be on the same server.

thanks.. all files are on the new server. I do use the importer to import the forums. what seems to trip me up is when to upload the databases. i use cli to run the upload scripts. for ex: mysql -u olecoot -p forum < 31524.sql

 

[Paul B]

The databases all need to be in their own separate instances in mysql.

So in this case there should 3 databases - 1 for the newly installed XF, 1 each for the 2 forums you are importing.

 

[Olecoot]

Thanks, Paul.. all is well now. I had a severe case of cranium flatulence.

so the steps I did to import two boards into one are.

1. build new VM
2. install Debian OS
3. Install lamp stack
4. create three databases, one for each board.
5. Install Xenforo
6. install the importer
7. import each forum data and internal_data using the importer
8. upload each database using ssh to their respective DB.

I had a small board and a very large board to import. I highly recommend using the cli importer for the large boards. the import time for the large board was ~4 hours.

OC

 

[nevershutup]

Hi, sorry for the slight necro of this thread, but I'm in a similar situation except my import is from a cloud version, not from a different self-hosted version. Does the importer work the same way in both cases or is there a different procedure to follow?