Question Moving the complete forum (users, posts etc.) to another website

Hi,

I'm new to this forum. As the headline says, I need to move the entire forum to another website. How do I do that? Do I just need to dl some specific folders from my server? I can't log into the backend of my website due to technical issues which I can't fix (I'm gonna make a clean installation of Joomla).

I hope that somebody can help me.

In order to do that you need to copy database (jos_fb_*) and at least users (jos_users, jos_core_acl*, jos_sessions) into the new database after you have installed joomla into it. Then just install Kunena and it should work.

Thanks Matias. Very helpful!

I exported/imported the jos' you mentioned into a testside. However... it said that the jos_core_acl* and jos_sessions already existed. I imported the others and the topics and their stats are there but not the registered members. Any idea how I handle this? Do I need to overwrite the existing jos_core_acl* and jos_sessions?

This question seems to be asked a lot. Here are a few discussion topics that cover the essentials:

• Which parts of DB contain latest Kunena information?
• How to copy Kunena from one website to another
• Post-Migration Issues: need to recalc hit-count and posts-count
• Copy entire forum content from one site to another

That's a start. Of course, if you have an "empty" Joomla website created elsewhere, you will already have the tables jos_core_acl*, jos_sessions and a few other ones there. If you want to preserve your existing Kunena forum then you'll need to overwrite those tables.

If, on the other hand, you simply want to copy your entire Joomla website from one place to another, I recommend that you use a tool like Akeeba Backup (formerly known as Joomlapack) which makes the whole task as easy as a stroll in the park.

Thanks a lot! I'll check those topics later today when I get some spare time.