The three most important things to do now are:
Note:
- LEAVE THE ORIGINAL BOARD RUNNING UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THIS AND DONE SOME TEST IMPORTS.
- Back up your target database.
- Read the rest of this manual for importing.
- Testing an import before shutting down the source forum is the best way to go.
- There will probably be some residual HTML from the content that will need cleaning up afterwards, which is part of the import task and process, not a function of the support team.
- The links within the forum to other threads/posts/users will be imported, and link to the old board. A 301/404 solution will need to be put in place if that is a concern.