Planning my import from phpBB2

[Marit]

Hello and greetings from Norway,

I just purchased my vBulletin lisence today, and I'm so excited about moving my phpBB board over to it. I've downloaded ImpEx and I've gone through the online manual. I created a testforum with a testdatabase, as recommended there. I also have a back-up from my phpBB2 board, as instructed. I set the 'sourceexists' to false in the impexconfig file, since the manual said to use the back-up for the test import. And now I'm wondering how I can use the back-up, which is currently on my computer? I couldn't find the answer to this in the online manual.

TIA! :)

~Marit

[Jerry]

I set the 'sourceexists' to false in the impexconfig file, since the manual said to use the back-up for the test import.

You will have to set that to true, it tells ImpEx if there is a source database or not, here there is, your phpBB one.


And now I'm wondering how I can use the back-up, which is currently on my computer? I couldn't find the answer to this in the online manual.

You will need to restore that phpBB to a database so ImpEx can read from it, if the phpBB database has the table prefix "phpbb_" you can restore it to the test vBulletin database and set the source and target as the same in ImpExConfig.php.

[Marit]

Thank you for replying so quickly! :)