I recently bought a hosting package here and I need to move this forum (http://forums.mylastbreath.co.uk/) to here (http://forums.evnation.net/) so I don't lose all the existing members and posts.

Anyone know how I would do that?

Thanks

P.S. I'm using IPB2 PF2 trial version, so I can't ask on the IPB support forum.

It's very easy

You should create the dump of your forum's database on your old host and then upload
it to your new server.

Then we'll restore your form from the dump.

Thank you for choosing us.

How would I do that? I downloaded a backup from cPanel of the MySQL database, is that it?

Also, things like the database name have changed (like it was damirg_mlb and now it will be evnation_mlb), so will anything else have to be done?

If you have access to 'MyPHPAdmin' or 'PHPMyAdmin', go to it.

1. On the left hand column, select the database your forum is based on.
2. Click on the 'Export' Tab on the right hand column
3. Inside the frame on the right, you will see 'Export' and a bunch of tables listed in a list box. Highlight all of them by clicking 'select all'.
4. Click 'Save as file' at the bottom.
5. Do not select any compression method.
6. click 'GO'

This should prompt you do download a SQL file. This will be your entire forums database.

Now, on your new host...

1. Create a new DB (Keep the DB name same to make it easy). You do this in CPanel
2. Go to PHPMyadmin
3. Select the database you have just created.
4. select the 'SQL' tab
5. at the botton, you willl 'OR, location of the text file'
6. Click browse and select the SQL file.

This should play the SQL file into the DB, which should create the tables and populate it with the data.

Now go download the 'forums' directory, and upload it to the new host.
Make sure you have the permissions set correctly for the writes/exe/read. The IPB Manual lists the permissions for each directory.

Now go into the conf_global.php

It's a text file in the main folder of your forums directory.

Replace all 'www.yourolddomainname.com' to your new domain name.

The base dir should not have to be changed (hope you are lucky...), but if you do, you need to find out from the hosting company what it is.


That should do it. I would include better instructions, but I'm having hard time with CPanel right now (it's not working correctly and timing out).

Good luck.

Wow, thanks! I'll try it as soon as hostony starts working.. >.>

Hello Supersonic^
supergodoffunk gave you very nice instructions

Right, my base dir HAS changed btw.

It was damirg and now it's evnation... so what do I do?

You need to edit your config file and modify all variabled containing path.

Here's what the conf_global.php file has:

No path config as you can see.

Your problem isn't related to the path, your database is empty. Please tell me where the dump is located and I'll try to fix it

It's not updated yet. I tried twice uploading a gzipped version to save time, and I got some error, so now I'm uploading the uncompressed version..

It's 30MB and my upload speed is 30KB/s so it will take a while

Well I tried uploading again and I got the same error.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/read_dump.lib.php on line 91

Please upload it via ftp and let me know about its location on the server,

Congratulations. your forum is up now

Thank you!

Heh. Step #5 on my instructions man!

Didn't make any difference, since I still got the Timed Out error. Actually there was a difference. It took 6 times longer