Migrating from Vbulletin 3.7.3

[torrocks]

Is it possible to migrate to the latest version of Xenforo from Vbulletin 3.7.3. That was running Mysql 5.5 and PHP 5.2. Or is this too old?

 

[MySiteGuy]

You'll have to do one of the following:

1. Upgrade your web hosting to MySQL 5.7 and PHP 7.2 at minimum.
2. Copy the files and database to web hosting which supports the above minimum.
3. Hire someone to do it but you'd still need to have hosting which meats the minimum requirements.

 

[torrocks]

With option 1. Can I just use php 8.4 and mariadb 10? Are you saying the imported mysql db doesn't have to be the same as the one that is on the server that xenforos will be installed on? Xenforos will be able to extract the information? Also I think the db is over 10gb. Is that going to be a problem?

 

[Itworx4me]

Self-hosted XenForo licenses

Purchase XenForo software licenses and add-on products for installation on your own infrastructure

xenforo.com

The following are minimum requirements:

• PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
• MySQL 5.7 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
• All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.3.
• Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.2.

You can use php 8.4 if you like and same goes for mariadb 10