Mybb 1.6.10 to Xenforo

[neil1]

ok guys/gals, If this has been asked before please excuse my arrogance, I have a forum with over 4,228 posts in 542 threads.

My question is does this forum come with a converter from Mybb to Xenforo and how easy is it. I.E will i need to convert to other platforms before this forum ect ect

 

[neil1]

ok so i will be installing the forum on a new domain so will i be able to still convert it over. it will still be on the same server.....

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

It does say in the FAQ you can transfer your license to a new domain as long as you completely remove it from your old one, and update your account here.

 

[TPerry]

I would be interested to hear that as well. My site is a reasonable size (365,955 posts in 23,827 threads), so it any indication on how long the converter would take would be a great help.

Neil - I doubt I'll end up doing it before you, but I might get around to some testing. If I do I'll post any feedback here.

I won't be able to comment on that as none of the sites have posts - I just set them up within the last couple of weeks.

 

[TPerry]

@Disciple of Nagash & @neil1, just did a test import. Took about 10 minutes (only 6 posts) from the time I started setting it up (the initial install). Had to create the initial DB for the new xenForo install.
One thing to watch for is you WILL have to move all your users into the registered group (to follow the normal xenForo permissions theory) as it places the user in their primary group defined in myBB as the primary in xenForo then you need to assign them to any secondary groups. This will most likely effect moderators and the administrator accounts and any other that had something other than registered defined in myBB as their primary.
Also, you will need to put the FULL path to the uploads directory. In my case, it was /var/www/servinglinux/uploads for the myBB location to the Uploads folder.
Passwords carry over as well as the posts/directory structures and most other information. Special add-on info from myBB does not carry over for the most part. Even though you set up a new administrator account during the install (and you log into the system under it) once you go into the ACP -> Tools and import the new DB, your account info from myBB becomes your log in information and your administrator account from there will be your administrator account on xenForo.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Thank you @Tracy Perry , that is some really helpful info - appreciate it

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

A quick question that has come up from browsing around here and the resources.

I have noticed if I click on say a thread or an addon, and then try to click back, it doesn't work. If I look in the history its like the page has loaded 3/4 times and I have to bring up the list and click on the correct entry to take me back:



Is this normal for XF, or is this something wrong at my end?

 

[Mike]

There's a Chrome bug where it can get stuck in a loop if you end up reloading a page (such as via editing a post). I've run into it in various situations.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Its very odd. For example I literally just clicked on this page, no editing / reloading, yet in the history it still shows two? Is this being looked into, as I don't want a transfer to cause problems with my Chrome users?

 

[Mike]

Well that's a behavior I've never had (and still don't have).

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Hmm. I'll try again from home and get some other people to try it as well.

 

[spock]

Good, there is a converter. I was getting worried >_<

 

[Jeremy]

And as far as bug reports go, its pretty stable. Also, power to early September '91 Pittsburghers. (I'll show myself to the weird corner. lol)

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

@neil1 - I had some free time, so purchased and currently going through the import. Going pretty well so far, I'll post all my steps up for you shortly. Did encounter one issue on the Super Administrator which I am working on.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Questions for one of the staff. Most of the questions I have seen around importing MyBB seem to be before the importer was created.

How should I handle thread redirection now, this is not something I have come across before?

 

[Mike]

You can generally just use some redirects in the .htaccess. This is discussed here in the context of phpBB: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/phpbb-import-url-redirect.32123/

Those URLs would need to be tweaked a bit to fit with MyBB's. If you're maintaining IDs, you don't need to go through the showthread.php redirects as discussed by Jake.

 

[spock]

Okay, I used the converter. I can verify it works as expected (including working passwords). One suggestion though, When there are invalid users , there should be an option to skip those I think..

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Congrats, still trying to get mine to work Having problems with importing attachments.

 

[spock]

Thats because instead of pointing it to "uploads", you need to point it to ../old-forum-location/uploads.

Cheers.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

I actually copied my upload folder to the root of the XF install, it gets to around 50% then gets a fatal error.

 

[spock]

Nah, put it back