Sticky How to move, copy or merge my old Kunena forums from one site to another

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G'day, sskarli, and welcome to the forum.


I'm sorry that no-one else has replied to your question for a couple of days, so I have merged it into a bigger, general topic that should answer your questions.

The short answer to your main question ("Can it be done?") is yes. This is the kind of job I would love, if someone was paying me for my time to do it for them, because I could make a small fortune from doing this kind of work. But if this was my own website running J! 1.5.26 and K 1.6.1 I would probably forget about it and work on something that's a bit more "fun".

However, you asked for hints and that's what I will do for you. The general outline of the process is discussed in msg #4 of this merged topic.

This topic goes into many different case scenarios but I think, if you spend an hour or so looking at it, you will get the general idea. Please be aware that this topic started over two years ago. Some of the links may not work (or may point to non-existent pages). I hope this information will assist you ... and good luck (because you're going to need it)

Hi guys,
and how should I do it, if I want to keep all my kunena forum information and put it on my new website, after deleting completely the old one. I am not transfering from one live website to another. I want to delete the whole existing joomla 1.5 website and re-do it again, but this time in joomla 3.x

petko8680 wrote: Hi guys,
and how should I do it, if I want to keep all my kunena forum information and put it on my new website, after deleting completely the old one. I am not transfering from one live website to another. I want to delete the whole existing joomla 1.5 website and re-do it again, but this time in Joomla 3.x

This is how I did it going from J1.5 to J2.5. I would imagine it would work the same way going to J3.X as long as Kunena hasn't changed significantly.

www.joomlajunkies.net/index.php/features...la-1-5-to-joomla-2-5

The thing I wonder though is whether the current version of Kunena even works in both J1.5 and J3. If not, there may be other steps involved that I didn't have to discover. In the J2.5 days Kunena still supported Joomla 1.5 so it was simply a matter of manipulating a little data in a text editor than re-importing the tables of the SAME version of Kunena. If the tables have changed than that method will no longer work.

FTR, I posted this link earlier in this thread, but don't mind repeating it because I am going to be going from v2.5 to J3 and any input from more knowledgeable folks on any pitfalls will be appreciated!

To "move" from J! 1.5 to J! 3.x - similar thing applies to going from J! 2.5 to J! 3.x - you need to have a staging site. In other words, you need to create a J! 3.x site first, then move your J! 1.5 content to the J! 3.x site, and then replace your existing J! 1.5 site with your new J! 3.x site.

In summary, to replace you J! 1.5 site, you have to migrate it to J! 3.x and replace the old site with the new, migrated site.

sozzled wrote: To "move" from J! 1.5 to J! 3.x - similar thing applies to going from J! 2.5 to J! 3.x - you need to have a staging site. In other words, you need to create a J! 3.x site first, then move your J! 1.5 content to the J! 3.x site, and then replace your existing J! 1.5 site with your new J! 3.x site.

In summary, to replace you J! 1.5 site, you have to migrate it to J! 3.x and replace the old site with the new, migrated site.

Sozzled, so the table structure hasn't changed? In other words for migrating KUNENA from J2.5 to J3, the tables structure doesn't change? I will be able to simply edit my table prefix and re-import the tables to my DB?

All of this is of course assuming I have maintained user ID's on the new site, which I have done.

Are there specific physical folders on the old site that must be migrated to the new site for things like avatars, post images etc?

karaokeamerica wrote: Sozzled, so the table structure hasn't changed? In other words for migrating KUNENA from J2.5 to J3, the tables structure doesn't change? I will be able to simply edit my table prefix and re-import the tables to my DB?

All of this is of course assuming I have maintained user ID's on the new site, which I have done.

That's pretty much the gist of it, yes.

karaokeamerica wrote: Are there specific physical folders on the old site that must be migrated to the new site for things like avatars, post images etc?

None, in addition to what we've discussed before, that I'm aware of, no.