Question Move from 1.5/1.6.3 to 1.7/1.7.1

Hello there!

I would like to ask you how can I move my forum to my new site.

Now we are running on Joomla 1.5 and Kunena 1.6.3

I am making new clear version of site on Joomla 1.7 and I would like to install new Kunena so now is 1.7.1

But how I can move the topics?

I have also Jomsocial so users are connected with Jomsocial and registration is also on Jomsocial module.

Thank you very much!

This is generally how you do it:

1) Upgrade Joomla and Kunena to the latest version (recommended for other components, too)
2) Install JUpgrade
3) Run JUpgrade (creates sub-directory with J!1.7 installation)
4) Set up the new site
5) Replace old site with the new one

and if I want migrate Kunena to new brand site without migration from old site?

torm wrote: and if I want migrate Kunena to new brand site without migration from old site?

I don't fully understand the question. I'm assuming, that the old site is running J! 1.5.someting + K 1.6.3 and a new site has already been built based on J! 1.7.3. Now, if that is your question, this is where things get really complicated!

The answer, in this case, is that you need to do a lot of work and, frankly, if this was my project I wouldn't even do it; I would pay someone else to do the job for me. My guess is that it would cost between 500-1000 euro (USD 750-1500) to pay someone to do that work. However, to answer your question, the information to do this work is contained in [Merged topic] How to move my Kunena forum from one site to another .

In the past month alone I think we have replied with answers to this question on more than 50 occasions. Over the past [nearly] 3 years, this question about how people can take an existing forum on one site and move it to another website has probably been asked and answered more than a thousand times. So, torm, you are not the first person to ask this question and you certainly won't be the last.

Wouldn't it be ideal if someone could write an easy script that could export a Kunena forum, the users who contributed to that forum, their passwords, all the attachments posted on that forum, and any special security settings ... and then import all of that automagically into another Kunena forum somewhere else? If someone could write such a script, it would probably be worth big money! I'm sorry to say that no such silver-bullet solution exists today and the dreams those who would like to strike it rich are still only dreams. If someone was willing to sponsor a project to develop a Kunena forum export-import tool, that would cater for just about every need of people who do not want to migrate their existing J! 1.5 site into J! 1.7, then maybe this could be done. But I think it would take several weeks for this to happen and now we're talking about a lot of money. Therefore, in the absence of any automated tool, you have to do the work the hard way ... yourself.

One other point I omitted to make: I would not even attempt to move K 1.6.3 anywhere without updating it to K 1.7.1 first.

Like I've said in many topics -- you cannot move Kunena without also moving all the users. And to move users, you need a tool like JUpgrade (there are probably others as well).

But even that -- you don't have to move all the tables, only Kunena + user tables are enough. I've listed the tables in another topic.