UBB import questions

[dchan]

I purchased and successfully installed VB3.01 and have the forum working, I went through the process of uploading and installing the impex module and it seems to have imported most of the users, styles, Forums, threads, and posts but I must be missing something because I can't seem to be able to get them to display anywhere.
I have been searching the forums and documentation to see how to do this. Where did I go wrong.

Thanks

[Breaker]

select the default vB style and see what happens, seems like style issues unless i completely misread your post.

[dchan]

Tried that. unless I'm missing another place to do that.

The VB is here.

http://69.3.189.188:8001/

It should have several thousand posts.

It appears most of the member data come over and imported correctly.

Note: the above link no longer works. (dns settings being replicated)

[Steve Machol]

You need to update all the counters:

Admin CP -> Import & Maintenance -> Update Counters

[dchan]

I thought I did that but will do it again.

Maybe I didn't state my question correctly.

The UBB board I tried to import had 4 or 5 catagories and 14 forums.

After I imported the user information, I tried to import the rest of the content

The importer reported progress that included styles, forums, threads and posts but when I go to the actual forum, all I see is the main forum. (forum id1 and forum id2)

I'm wondering if something else is missing.

The UBB content I'm trying to import was from a "crashed" system so. Is this part of the problem?

Thanks.

[dchan]

I just finished the update counters process, Still no go.

GRRR

Any other suggestions?

[Steve Machol]

The UBB content I'm trying to import was from a "crashed" system so. Is this part of the problem?

This is a rather important piece of information. If the data being imported was bad, then it could very well explain this problem.

[Breaker]

from the sounds of it the categories and forums didn't import, but can you view the posts if you link to them directly?

[dchan]

After digging around for a while, I noticed that there was an error I missed.

It looks like the import files for ubb are looking for "catagories.file" Maybe an older version of UBB.Classic used this format but ubb 6.7.1 uses "vars_cats.cgi" I fixed this and the error in the path's list is now fixed.

Is there a way to wipe the database and start from scratch without reloading the vbulletin board. I think I might have a complete working version of the ubb now too.

Thanks.

Dchan

[Steve Machol]

You can run install.php again and choose to have it clear the database.

[dchan]

Thanks for the hints Steve.

Steps taken so far.

Got the UBB.classic board working correctly. - OK

Re-install vb3 - ok

run admin control panel
open Maint-import
run Impex module
Select module 1, (this is the one I had to modify to process catagories)
Fill out fields and run. No errors

Select Import users - ok

Import styles, OK

Import Forums, OK

update counters

repair/optimize tables

import threads - ok

Import posts -started, this took almost 3 hours last time. Going to sleep.

to be continued...

[dchan]

Next update.

So far I have not had any luck getting the imported catagories and forums to appear anywhere. I know the system knows they are there because when I create a new "forum" catagory the Forum ID is up above id: 18 which tells me forum id : 2-17 have reserved space in the database.

If I try to display the forum via the ID directly I still can not see them.

I'm re'indexing the whole database now and I have updated the DNS settings in the internet so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction soon.

Thanks

Dave

[dchan]

Oh Yeah,

I did update all the counters.

[Steve Machol]

Do you have a link to the UBB forums that aren't showing up after the import?

[dchan]

http://69.3.189.188:8002/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

most of the links probably don't work externally as I configured them as an internal just to get the system working and try to import it.

Everything internally (non NAT IP's) works fine.

Dave