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

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.

Hi,

just want to be sure: Is it possible to upgrade from Kunena 1.5.13 (Joomla 1.5.26) to Kunena 3.0.4?

I'm converting my old website into a new one and have converted almost everything so far besides the Kunena forum. According to this Upgrade Guide I should be able to do that (The upgrade process can be done with any Kunena versions (K 1.0, K 1.5, K 1.6, K 2.0 or K 3.0) or any FireBoard versions (1.0.4+).) But when I try to install new version of (Kunena 3.0.4) on my old site (Joomla 1.5.26 + Kunena 1.5.13) I get message that the .xml installation file could not be found.

Here is the Kunena migration instruction I've tried to follow.

Thanks for you reply and for any advices how to transfer the posts from the old forum to a new one.

Fjody wrote: According to this Upgrade Guide I should be able to do that (The upgrade process can be done with any Kunena versions (K 1.0, K 1.5, K 1.6, K 2.0 or K 3.0) or any FireBoard versions (1.0.4+).)

Correct. You can upgrade from any old version of Kunena to K 3.0.6 using the upgrade procedure you refer to.

Fjody wrote: But when I try to install new version of (Kunena 3.0.4) on my old site (Joomla 1.5.26 + Kunena 1.5.13) I get message that the .xml installation file could not be found.

You cannot install K 3.0.x on J! 1.5.x.

Fjody wrote: Here is the Kunena migration instruction I've tried to follow.

This procedure is basically correct. In effect, this method says that you need to have two sites:

1. Your original J! 1.5 site (that has K 1.5.13) installed; and
2. A new, "target" site running J! 2.5 or J! 3.x which is where you will put your migrated old (J! 1.5) site data and where you will copy the Kunena database tables (and a few other files, like forum attachments). The link that you posted outlines that procedure. Some other information that may help you is in msg #76 of this topic.