Question Migrating from J .5 to .7: Can i export kunena into J 1.7?

i'm most site hosts and would like to upgrade to J 1.7 as i do it.

Is it possible to do that migration w/o ruining my Kunena install?
Is there a way to export the database from Kunena to put it in a CLEAN install of J 1.7?

The end goal is to gain the ACLs from Joomla 1.7 WITHOUT losing all the threads in Kunena. If you have done this, please let me know how you did it!

Google for jUpgrade.

You cannot gain ACL from Joomla 1.7 just yet -- the release (K1.7) adding support for access levels will be out in a week or so.

Thanks.

Don't know why i didn't get a notice from this thread. Hrm.

Anywho.

i'm trying to go to 1.6 using JUpgrade. In the test environment, Kunena looks all kinds of messed up. That was after doing the discovery and update thing. Before that i couldn't get to Kunena at all.

Are there steps to get it to look right?

The pic shows the variable names or something and the shapes are all jacked up. Is that because i haven't moved it to the live site? It's still running in the /jupgrade folder.

I would just download and install the latest Kunena release after migration. Discovery/update isn't working well with Kunena.

The warning you get comes from Joomla, not Kunena. You should report a bug from it (just the warning text) and they should know what to do with it (they just need to suppress that warning by @).

Will installing the latest kunena wipe out the threads?

If so, then i might as well go for a clean install of 1.7.

No, upgrade always keeps all data intact.

FYI: JUpgrade 1.2.1 (maybe also 1.2.0) seems to be broken with Kunena 1.7, so migration to Joomla 1.7 fails to import Kunena.. I've fixed the issue locally, but the fix needs to be in JUpgrade, so I'm waiting to hear answer from the author.

i tried to upgrade Kunena in my 1.6 test site. Here's the error message:

500 - An error has occurred.

Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent

Wait, never mind! The upgrade worked. Fracking awesome!

Now i just have to fix Joomla.

Joomla 1.7 is picky on menu items. You probably already had menu item called "Forum". Find and delete (or rename) it. Then empty trash (it cannot exist at all) and create Kunena menu again from Kunena admin.

i'm in 1.6.(something) for now. i can get to Kunena and it looks right. It's the ONLY component that seems to be working. i can't get anything else to appear. But that's a Joomla problem.

Thanks, Matias.