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Traxion
Wed 30th Apr '08, 12:15pm
I have installed VB and have been trying to do this import for a while now. The current DB resides on a completely different hosting service and domain. Everytime I got to start import it says my username or password are incorrect. I am using the exact same information on the config.php file in PHPBB2 and putting it into the IMPEX config. The hosting company is DirectNIC that has the source DB. I am able to login in their phpMyAdmin with the user name from the config file and the current PHPBB board is functioning fine. Just wondering if I missed something? Any help would be appreciated.


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Jerry
Wed 30th Apr '08, 3:06pm
Just wondering if I missed something? Any help would be appreciated.

phpMyAdmin is a application that is running locally on the server you're connecting to, MySQL by default (and rightly so) won't allow remote connections.

You'll have to take a backup of the source database and restore it on the same server that vBulletin and ImpEx are running.
Traxion
Wed 30th Apr '08, 4:31pm
Thank you for the response

Are you saying I need to Export the DB and Import on the VB server? The only problem is the DB says you can only import up to 2.5MB and my SQL DB file will be much larger than that. How do I over come this?


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Traxion
Wed 30th Apr '08, 5:35pm
I think I got it, just having problems with the attachements being moved. Thanks!

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Jerry
Wed 30th Apr '08, 6:29pm
The attachments will have to be moved as well yes, ImpEx needs to be able to access them.
Traxion
Thu 1st May '08, 12:10pm
Well it says it cannot find the attachments. The same issue I have seen here before. I was wondering can I just upload the attachments manually and then do the import? Maybe the reason they files arent being found is because they reside on a completely different domain and hosting service. Thanks again for the reply.


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Jerry
Thu 1st May '08, 4:15pm
Maybe the reason they files arent being found is because they reside on a completely different domain and hosting service. Thanks again for the reply.


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Yes, if the files are on a wholly separate server that ImpEx has no access to, then that wouldn't stop it importing the attachments.