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

Abandoned it, some sql tables in 1.7 do not exist in 1.5 and vise versa

I actually wanted to use sobi2 within my site but might try K2 or similar that works in 1.7
just that I have used sobi2 quite a bit so know how to use it.

hey ho

zombies wrote: Abandoned it.

Sounds reasonable to me; that's what I would have done, too. Sorry, I don't know anything about Sobi2 or K2 - the only thing I've read is that the developers of K2 have expressed their view that they're terribly interested co-operating with Kunena (and that may be a reason to decide not to use that product ... I don't know). Good luck.

I too use SOBI2 and have many issues due to there being no migration path from SOBI2 to SOBI Pro. However, this new version of SOBI does exist. Maybe migrating once to SOBI Pro will bring more options in the future......like components that have clear upgrade/migration options?

Moving Kunena from J!1.7 to J!1.5:

You can move data all from Kunena just like you would migrate Joomla from 1.5 into 1.7:

1) Copy all the Kunena files from /media/kunena and make sure that the file permissions are right
2) Copy #__kunena tables from one database to another (#_ = Joomla prefix, remember to change it, too)
3) Fix category permissions for each category as they are different in Joomla 1.5 and 1.7

Just remember that this only moves Kunena, not the users. So if the users aren't identical in both sites, all the messages end up to wrong users (or new users after they register into your site).

Matias wrote: Just remember that this only moves Kunena, not the users. So if the users aren't identical in both sites, all the messages end up to wrong users (or new users after they register into your site) ...

... which basically means that you finish up with a totally unusable forum. :pinch:

But, yes, you can move these things. :whistle:

Can't the posts/user ID's be reassigned in the Kunena tables if that happens? For someone with a relatively small number of people it still may be practical.

I have a Kunena forum on an old J1.5 site that I had no way to migrate to a new J1.5 site so I had to start all over. I am now in the process of starting a J1.7 site to replace that site. I would love to find a way to merge all of it. I used the ARRA user migration from one J1.5 site to the other so it may maintain the same user ID's. I'd have to check, but even this may not be permanent if you can modify the user ID's in Kunena.