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« Reply #45 on: July 04, 2005, 10:31:51 PM » |
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It should be the admin login that was on your phpBB board instead as that is what it changes the admin details to upon conversion, so just login as the phpBB board username and password on the SMF board for the admin, then re-add your other admin or change the username and password for the admin to what you'd like instead. I was wondering about this, because I tried it and couldn't log in with the phpBB details. Is there any way to add an admin without going through the UI? |
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« Reply #46 on: July 05, 2005, 01:33:14 PM » |
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phpBB install - 8 minutes
phpBB importing db from friend - 10 minutes
phpBB finding DarkEQ skin so phpBB would run as db import from friend required this skin - 30 minutes (this darn theme is in their demo but not on the skins area...had to do forum search to find it)
SMF install - 4 minutes
phpBB to SMF conversion - 2 minutes Well so far, 9 hours, and phpbb is still down - and can no longer access it. Cannot install SMF because the database is in use by phpbb. If I delete the phpbb, then I lose a year+ worth of messages. So what now?  |
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« Reply #47 on: July 05, 2005, 01:52:40 PM » |
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Please do not cross post, we replied to this at http://www.lunarforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=214820I am not certain how it is 9 hours to convert. Did you begin converting 9 hours ago to SMF? I do not see a prior request here for assistance in converting and the script to disable only started doing so a couple of hours ago... |
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« Reply #48 on: July 06, 2005, 09:21:39 AM » |
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Danielle, I'm having trouble at this step: 3. The screen will ask for the path to phpbb and smf on your account:
Where are they?
Path to SMF: /home/cpanelusername/public_html/smf
Path to phpBB2: /home/cpanelusername/public_html/phpbb
SMF Database password: MySQL database user's password used above 2 times already I have SMF installed and running, and I installed the php to smf converter, but I receive the following message when I attempt to convert my old phpbb forum to smf: Unable to find the settings for phpBB2. Please double check the path and try again. Maybe I'm missing something completely obvious  I'm soooo close! Any thoughts? Is it looking for a settings file that was removed when my old phpbb forum was deactivated by Lunar? Clare staveley-genealogy.com |
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« Reply #49 on: July 06, 2005, 09:01:43 PM » |
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Please do not cross post, we replied to this at http://www.lunarforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=214820I am not certain how it is 9 hours to convert. Did you begin converting 9 hours ago to SMF? I do not see a prior request here for assistance in converting and the script to disable only started doing so a couple of hours ago... In following your tutorial, at this point MySQL Server Settings
MySQL server name: localhost
MySQL username: cpanelusername_dbusername
MySQL password: dbusername's password
MySQL database name: cpanelusername_dbname
MySQL table prefix: smf_
Most of these settings are pre-filled in.... In fact, none were filled in. I created a new user/PW for the existing database. This is the error message I get The installer was unable to access the "wind-s2_xmb2" database. With some hosts, you have to create the database in your administration panel before SMF can use it. Some also add prefixes - like your username - to your database names. |
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« Reply #50 on: July 12, 2005, 08:16:12 PM » |
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Danielle wrote: You are on a suPHP server, so you cannot have file permissions of 777 for any files or folders nor 666 for any files or folders. If you log into cPanel, click on File Manager, then on the folder icon next to public_html, then on the folder icon next to smf, then on each file or folder name (not the icon to the left of it but the file or folder name) that has 777 or 666 file permissions to the far right, then click "Change Permissions" link in the upper right hand corner, and uncheck group and world write checkboxes (do not go into the boxes below and change the numbers as you have to uncheck the boxes above instead for it to work), then click change.
Once you've changed all files or folders at 777 to 755 and all files at 666 to 644, then you should be able to install SMF. Is there any way to "mass chmod" these files to 755? My god, there are dozens of them! I tried doing this via WS_FTP Pro but they wouldn't stay changed for some reason. I mean to say that I chmodded them all to 755 but when I went back to check for any I might have missed, they were all back to 777! I'm confused as well as frustrated because I have been going into the File Manager to chmod them one by one now and it's really taking forever. Don't mean to sound like a whiner but I've three (3) phpBB boards to change over to SMF hopefully before the next so-called upgrade/update occurs over at phpBB.com. If all these files have to be chmodded individually...I'm going to be wayyy behind.  Update: Figured it out.  Guess I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees tonight.  |
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« Reply #51 on: July 12, 2005, 09:14:52 PM » |
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Glad you got it sorted out  |
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« Reply #52 on: July 14, 2005, 10:26:03 AM » |
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Got another problem. I'm trying to prevent Guests from posting on the new Forums. And yes, I have set the feature to Disallow. I'm a bit confused. I set permissions for a Guest basically to just be able to view the forums. Not post. Any ideas? |
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« Reply #53 on: January 23, 2006, 03:46:40 AM » |
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We were running phpbb on our old site but since it's down now anyway, I thought I'd move to SMF. I have a phpbb backup and it's running on LP. I installed SMF using fantastico.I added the SMF User to my PHPbb databased. Then I downloaded the conversion script but it keeps telling me my password is wrong. How do I know my database password since Fantastico sets it up?
I know it's probably easy but I'm stumped.
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« Reply #54 on: January 23, 2006, 05:04:41 AM » |
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I think its the same as your cpanel password by default but not sure.
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« Reply #55 on: January 23, 2006, 06:20:33 AM » |
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You can find the SMF password in Settings.php and the phpbb password in config.php
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« Reply #56 on: January 23, 2006, 01:05:26 PM » |
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You can find the SMF password in Settings.php and the phpbb password in config.php
Thanks, got it and it worked! Yeah!! |
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« Reply #57 on: January 31, 2006, 12:30:44 AM » |
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HELP!
I'm getting this message: The installation of SMF in the path you specified is not a version this converter can deal with. If it is older than SMF 1.0, you need to upgrade first. If it is newer, you need to use a different converter. I'm using the newest version of SMF. is there a different converter? please help.
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« Reply #58 on: January 31, 2006, 06:17:49 AM » |
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I don't believe the converter will work with the very latest version of SMF. Know it works with 1.0.5. Somebody in the simple machines forums did create a beta version of a converter for 1.1. Might ask him for it. http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=38966.0 |
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« Reply #59 on: April 16, 2006, 09:46:56 AM » |
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I am installing the latest version of SMF, I've got as far as step 7 and have a couple of questions before I continue:
1. For the MySQL database name, do I use my existing database that I'm using for phpBB - I guess I do but would just like confirmation please.
2. After running the conversion program will my present phpBB forum be affected at all? The way I read things is that it won't - in effect I would have two functioning forums on the server, am I correct.
Thanks for any response, as you can probably guess, I'm very apprehensive about switching to SMF for fear of it messing my phpBB Forum up.
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