Question Upgrading to Kunena

What would you recommend I do, install fire board version 1.05, or install the latest version of kunena? I'm assuming that if I uninstall Fire board, all the tables and data will be left in the database?

If you're installing forum for first time, go with latest kunena version, if you have an older fireboard forum, and don't mind losing your settings (not posts, nor users, not anything else), go with latest kunena version, if you don't want to have to re-setup your config, update first to 1.0.5

Yes, the tables will be left. The uninstall is nondestructive with regards to data. Still, might want to back it up as it is always good practice to do so.
Personally, I would go with Kunena 1.0.7b and then in the next few days, upgrade to 1.0.8. Now I'm not saying that this is the official stance on upgrading but for my own personal sites, I have been using 1.0.7b on them with no real trouble. Just remember that any FB modules may not work as they are so before you go changing things, you might want to see what you are going to have to do in order to get your modules back in working order once the upgrade is done.
Either way, whether you go FB1.0.5 or K1.0.7b, I would recommend, even urge you, to upgrade to 1.0.8 once it is available. It has so many bugfixes from the old FB it isn't even funny.

Hope this helps...
whouse

Oscarfishlover wrote:

What would you recommend I do, install fire board version 1.05, or install the latest version of kunena? I'm assuming that if I uninstall Fire board, all the tables and data will be left in the database?

Of course you install the latest version of Kunena. So you are running FB1.0.4 and want to uptade. Here is the order:

1.) Backup, backup and backup if something goes wrong
2.) Install fbconverter (here):
joomlacode.org/gf/project/fireboard/frs/
3.) Uninstall fbconverter
4.) Uninstall Fireboard 1.0.4
5.) Install latest Kunena

Messages from old Fireboard ahould be ok. If you don´t care your old messages, then just uninstall Fireboard 1.0.4 and install Kunena.

Admata wrote:

Messages from old Fireboard ahould be ok. If you don´t care your old messages, then just uninstall Fireboard 1.0.4 and install Kunena.

Hi,

There is a little misunderstanding. Old message will always be upgraded from ALL prior FB versions.

fbconverter is only there to write the file based config settings into the database. If you don't run fbconverter for older FB releases you still get ALL messages just that you have to enter the sitting again: e.g. email, template, number of post per page, ...

fbconverter is totally optional you can enter those by hand and be done with it.

Also fbconverter should only be used once when you move from FB1.0.4 or earlier. All following versions have the config inside the db.

Hope this helps!

fxstein

I think I'm getting there, sort of. I installed the converter to the fireboard 1.04 forum. I then uninstalled it and installed the 1.5 forum. I didn't get any error messages, it seemed to go okay. Problem is, some of the forums have now disappeared. Strange thing is, they seem to be published if I look in the fireboard configuration. It is actually a website I started doing for someone that has now halted so I'm using it to test things before I carry out changes on live websites.

Check it out for yourself, maybe you can point me in the right direction

www.devon-sharks-rlfc.co.uk/Chat-Forum

Not sure what's happening with the link. It seems to be putting an extra HTTP in the address bar