phpbb to xenforo but how ?

[aLinux]

hello
i am using phpbb for almost 5 years, all good for now but i feel like its holding me back with all the extension for that, extension for this. and most of the time installing one extension can bring down the whole cms!
seo url ? what seo ? i know phpbb has ugly urls "viewforum.php?f=12" and so on.. not very friendly
and many other problems that its not worth mentioning.
i have about 500 users on a community with over 5000 posts/topics/questions (attachments are disabled and nothing is uploaded, all images,videos are embed from imgur or postimg)
from documentation what i read is that i can import content with ease but old urls https://xenforo.com/community/resources/categories/redirection-scripts-2-x.52/ ?
various Unmaintained for phpbb ... only one script or what ever is. cant test cant view.
i cant test how importing on demo, i dont know if i encounter any issues.
please someone share some info or who has done this recently

 

[chillibear]

I did a modest phpBB import a few years (couple of thousand accounts and ~ 100k posts) ago without any noticeable issues the import seemed to bring everything over okay. That was an earlier phpBB board and I forget if I updated it to the current (v3?) version before doing the import, quite possibly. That was done using the supplied XF import tools.

Web server wise I use Nginx rather than Apache so added some basic locations to handle the old URLs, much like the .htaccess configuration you noted for Apache (https://xenforo.com/community/resou...phpbb-3-2-3-3-without-seo-urls-htaccess.7838/). I'd not worry about that being "unmaintained" there isn't really anything to maintain, the old URLs are not going to change since, well they are old URLs! And unless Apache massively changes the way it does URL rewriting (and it hasn't in however many years) you'll be good for the foreseeable.

I don't know if the XF demo lets you do an import, you'd need to contact XF themselves to ask about that.

 

[aLinux]

demo dont allow import, i cant test that.
onest answer, was it worth migrating ?

what about

• SEO impact
• traffic drops
• user behavior changes

after import and redirect ?!

 

[Ricsca]

Your forum will only get better by switching to xenforo.

 

[ForumDevs]

demo dont allow import, i cant test that

If it helps, we could set up a testing site on one of our domains and import your forum so you can check if everything is OK before purchasing the license.

 

[aLinux]

If it helps, we could set up a testing site on one of our domains and import your forum so you can check if everything is OK before purchasing the license.

YES please! id like to do some tests. im very interested in migrating but i need more info that i could not find!