Question Move installation from a 1.5 site to another 1.5 site

I have an active kunena forum running in Joomla 1.5 and for unforseen circumstances, I need to move it to another Joomla 1.5 installation that happens to be on the same server but in a different folder location. I have about 300 members that I would like to fully move without them having to re-register and, if possible, I would like to move all of the posts as well. Could someone please give some directions on how to do this.

Thank you!

If I were in your situation I would investigate Joomlapack .

Hi,

There are a few more questions you need to consider. I assume that since you wish to move the forum, you will also be moving the users?? How are you doing that? Can you use the same method to move the forum?

Either way, I suspect you will have some manual work to do which would involve three areas:
- exporting the forum tables from your database and then importing them into the new joomla tables. These files are usually jos_fb_xxxxxxx assuming your prefix is jos. Do be careful here as your prefix probably has changed if you are still on the same server. I believe there are around 20 files involved. If you did not move your joomla user tables across you will have a problem as your jos_fb_users will not match your new user tables.
- also you need to move everything under images/fbfiles folder to get attachments, images, etc.
- you will need to redo any hacks & template changes you made to kunena. probably best to do a clean install and re-implement any template changes, etc.

Things to watch out for:
- Depending on the site of your jos_fb_xxxx files, you may need to watch the size of your export / import files
- Make sure your users are across too
- Issues with permissions. Since you are moving to a new site, will there be new unix users? Be cautious of the images/fbfiles and ownership.

Of course do it all in test first