Can't See Import > Import

[elvis_is_dead]

running vBulletin 3.5.0 on test server

I just downloaded and installed ImpEx on my local test server. However when I login to the admincp, I do not see the import options as detailed on http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex.

The impex folder has been copied to the main forums directory and the cpnav_impex.xml file has been copied to the includes folder.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong . . .

david

[Colin F]

Try accessing the import interface directly via http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/impex/

[elvis_is_dead]

Thanks, that helped.

I'm not importing an entire forum, just a list of users. My client has supplied a list exported from his Yahoo board. I selected the "Yahoo Groups Raw Text" option and received the following error messsage when I run the Check Database option:

path - /Users/da/Desktop/ OK
/Users/da/Desktop//users.txt - NOT OK
/Users/da/Desktop//users.txt - NOT OK
ERROR with the database or file system, please check config.

[Colin F]

Set the path to '/Users/da/Desktop' without the trailing flash.
Also make sure that folder has a users.txt file in it.

[elvis_is_dead]

I've removed the trailing slash and still get the same error message:

path - /Users/da/Desktop OK
/Users/da/Desktop/users.txt - NOT OK
/Users/da/Desktop/users.txt - NOT OK
ERROR with the database or file system, please check config.

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Here are the relevant lines in the config:


$impexconfig['target']['databasetype'] = 'mysql';
$impexconfig['target']['server'] = 'localhost';
$impexconfig['target']['user'] = 'xxx';
$impexconfig['target']['password'] = 'xxx';
$impexconfig['target']['database'] = 'forum';
$impexconfig['target']['tableprefix'] = 'derby';


# If the system that is being imported from uses a database,
# enter the details for it here and set 'sourceexists' to true.
# If the source data is NOT stored in a database, set 'sourceexists' to false

$impexconfig['sourceexists'] = false;

# mysql / mssql
$impexconfig['source']['databasetype'] = 'mysql';
$impexconfig['source']['server'] = 'localhost';
$impexconfig['source']['user'] = 'username';
$impexconfig['source']['password'] = 'password';
$impexconfig['source']['database'] = 'source';
$impexconfig['source']['tableprefix'] = '';

This is set to 'false' because I'm importing from a csv file, not from the actual db.

david

[Colin F]

Then the file isn't in the folder you indicated, or it isn't in the expected format.

[putergirl]

I have modified the config file in the "upload" file for impex, and moved all the systems out of the folder except for the one I'm going to use which is smf. I uploaded the "upload" file to the "public_html" and also to the "Forum" folder where my new site is, but I can't get access to the "import" function either through the admin panel or thru the link that someone jsut provided above.

The part I don't understand is, I keep reading about installing ImpEx, but I don't see any instructions to do that. Mucho thanks in advance. :D