Upgrading from a disabled board (phpBB)?

[twilighthush]

I originally had a Fully Modded phpBB that I tried to upgrade to the most recent version, to no avail due to the fact that my server doesn't have the most up to date version of PHP.

Updating phpBBFM calls for the deletion of all of the old files and the upload of all the new files, so I had to redelete all the new files and upload the old files to try and restore my database. This didn't work. (I did, however, back up the actual database before I did anything -- so all my users, posts, etc. are saved, just not the forum itself, if that makes any sense.)

So, I decided I might as well make my move to vBulletin like I had originally planned.

Well. I managed to get vBulletin installed and up and running in one folder, but I'm trying to import a database in.

However, the actual forum itself isn't functional at the moment (despite the fact that the database itself is technically still intact) so I think this might pose as a problem for the importing of the database? I'm not sure.

But is there anyway to import the actual database without having to have a functional forum? I have a gzipped version of the forum backed up, but I'm not sure what to do with it.

Any amount of help would be much appreciated.

[Jerry]

You don't need the forum at all, just the database, it makes no difference to ImpEx about the files as long as a complete database is available.

[twilighthush]

Unfortunately, it won't move past the checkpoint.

It says that it can't find any of the tables, which is strange, because I know everything is uploaded and I have the right source db in my config...

When I try to delete the import session and clear it to start over this is the error I receive:


ImpEx Database errormysql error: Invalid SQL: DELETE FROM datastore WHERE title='ImpExSession';
mysql error: Table 'vbulletin.datastore' doesn't exist
mysql error number: 1146
Date: Monday 14th of August 2006 06:37:21 AM
Database: vbulletin
MySQL error: Table 'vbulletin.datastore' doesn't exist

[Jerry]

That error is in refrence to the target database, check your ImpExConfig.php is complete and you have the correct database permissions and table prefix etc.

[twilighthush]

I'm very, very new to vBulletin (less than 24 hours) so I'm a little confused!
What do you mean by database permissions? Is it the username or...?

Thank you so much for your help... I know how much of a newb I sound like. :|

[Jerry]

Well that error is saying that ImpEx can't see the datastore table, usually thats for one of two reasons, ImpEx target (the vBulletin database, where all the data is going) is not set correctly, or 2) vBulletin has a table prefix that isn't set in ImpExConfig.php.

Check :

impex/ImpExConfig.php for ImpEx against the details in,

vbulletin/includes/config.php , which is the vBulletin config.