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

Hello,

You don't need to care about which tables are here or not here, Kunena 3.0.x is able to handle itself the migration from any previous version of Kunena.

You can follow that : www.kunena.org/docs/K_3.0_Upgrade_Guide

I have lost count of the number of topics that I've seen over the years from people who basically ask ...
[hr] [hr]Perhaps I should create a topic with exactly those words as the subject? :laugh:

It does not really matter if we are discussing K 1.0.8 on J! 1.5.6 or or K 1.7.0 on J! 1.6.2 or K 2.0.2 on J! 2.5.2, the approach is basically the same. You can do this yourself (if you have the time and the patience and you're prepared to deal with all the issues or pay someone else [a lot of] money to do this work for you) or accept that, perhaps, the challenge is too great and not worth the investment of your time (or money).

Here is a selection of a few topics that contain all the information that you (and anyone else who is in your situation) need to address your question:

• Migrate existing Kunena 2.0.4 forum (J! 1.5) to new Joomla site?


• I want to migrate my forum to Kunena ...


• How to move my Kunena forum from one site to another


• Migration


• Can I move my old (J! 1.5) Kunena forum to a new site?


• How to move my Kunena forum from one site to another


• Copying my Kunena forum from one site to another site

fidox wrote:

Has anyone got a solution from this?

I think you will see that a lot of people have found solutions to their forum migration/copying/moving/upgrading questions. I've done the searching for you - and I know there is even more information on this forum that will help - so the task really is up to you.

fidox wrote:

Because I can't install K 1.7 on my new site and then upgrade (That version doesn't support J! 2.5, right?)

Not entirely true, no. But you can upgrade from K 1.7.2 to K 2.0.4 (on J! 1.5.whatever) and then go from there.

I'm wondering how to migrate my old forum post which are based on old J1.5 and kunena 2.X, to new J3.0 with kunena 3.X...
The problem is with database, the old one is using jos_kunena_... database name meanwhile the new one is using cgybc_kunena_...

So how to import this database to the new one?

The answer is >>> here <<<

Sorry to pick up on this late...

HOWEVER... on some posts, after moving the old Kunena (1.7.2) tables, users, core-tables and files, to the new Kunena (3.0.3), some posts mention that you need to re-install Kunena on the new site?

Would someone please clarify if you need to re-install or rerun the installation again?

Thanks to all.

miamiman: The answer is >>> here <<<

We have a lot of topics on this forum that relate to the hundreds of different scenarios in the whole "how do I copy from my forum that uses K m_k0 .x_k0 .y_k0 on J! m_j0 .x_j0 .y_j0 website to another website where I want to use J! m_j1 .x_j1 .y_j1 with K m_k1 .x_k1 .y_k1 ...?"

We could have hundreds of different discussions covering each person's individual needs and who would this benefit? These discussions would probably benefit no-one except the person who asked the question.

That's why we try to reply to these questions in a general way.

In view of the fact that we have many discussions on the general question "how do I copy a [particular version of] Kunena from one site to another site", where different versions of Joomla may be involved, where different versions of Kunena may exist on the two different sites, I think we should close this discussion and let people read the general answer given here .

Short answer to your question: what is preventing you re-installing Kunena?