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

You can move the database over to the new site with some simple MySQL. You would have to manually (ftp) the images to the new site as well. A search of these forums will reveal more in depth solutions to migrating to a new server.

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G'day, Ace Kustoms, and welcome to Kunena.

I realise that your question involves moving your forum from a site running J! 2.5.9 to another site also running J! 2.5.9 and is not quite as the subject of this topic (which involves copying a Kunena forum from J! 2.5 to J 3.x) but the principles are the same, nonetheless. If we had to have separate topics on every possible combination of different versions of Joomla and Kunena I think that would be an impossible task. I have therefore merged your question here so that it may help not only you, but also others in your situation, too.

The process is described in this topic.

For your benefit it would be considerably easier if you upgraded to K 3.0.2 before you began the move. It might also be a good idea to update to J! 2.5.14 also. J! 2.5.9 is not recommended by Joomla.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for merging my topic with some helping info..

And perhaps I can help some of the others struggling with transfering their users if they come across this..I used userport v3.0 it may suit others needs, may not as I was transferring between two Joomla 2.5 sites...

Just a little clarification though if possible (I appreciate the time you guys take to answer silly questions )

So its only the Kunena mysql database tables I need to export/import into my new mysql database table?

Do I need to touch the Kunena install files at all? (Besides copying or overwriting the image file)

Both of these Kunena installs are in the same server environment and I can transfer files etc easy enough with the host cp.

Sorry if its another question that's been answered a million times..Just hoping to clarify whats mentioned above as I am a bit of a noob at this stuff...

Ace kustoms wrote: Thanks for merging my topic with some helping info.

It was a pleasure to do this and I am glad that this was helpful to you.

Ace kustoms wrote: So its only the Kunena mysql database tables I need to export/import into my new mysql database table?

No, that is not correct. The information you need to copy is more than just the Kunena tables. The data that you need to transport from one site to another is detailed in my earlier reply to MikeFromHC.

Don't worry, you are not the first person to ask this question. This whole process is tricky and it requires a good understanding of how Joomla works and how everything "hangs together." Trust me, it's not something I would want to do every day myself, either. In fact, if I was keen to see the task done (and done right), I would probably pay someone else to do the job for me. :laugh: But that's just my personal opinion and, besides, I'm lazy!

Yer I have the same disease..lazy is my middle name ..and am getting close to just paying someone else LOL..Will re-read ya post, cheerz..

Msg #4 of this topic outlines the things you need to move. Moving a forum from one place to another is not just a matter of copying a 20-30 database tables. There are three things that you need to move across:
Kunena data (tables);
Joomla users; and
forum attachments

The bit I struggle on is the Kunena data (tables)..I assume here your talking about the mysql data tables for kunena only and not the files you see in the public html area under components etc? (Still learning the lingo)..Do any of the kunena files in the public html need re-directed to the new mysql tables I import or do I just leave all these files as the new installation has created them..(Besides the attachment one)

I have installed a clean version of the same kunena on the new environment and from your post I need to move all the old mysql table data files from kunena into my new mysql database.
Copy the attachment folder and overwrite the new empty one with the one from my old public html kunena attachment folder
and I already have transfered all the users into the new database.

and then hopefully everything to do with the two forums will be the same...

Will do a backup and give it a try, whats the worse that could happen LOL..

Cheerz again for the assistance...