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Is it possible to convert Kunena 1.7.2 to SMF 2.0.2?

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ApplianceJunk:

--- Quote ---I agree with you that test are needed to see if all goes ok, but what I meant regarding tests here, was that I have already Kunena forum on-line, and can't mess it once it is working ok, and "I don't want to make tests" to see if SMF will fit or not or will cover my needs.
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I fail to see how creating a test site on a localhost is at all messing with your working forum.

The only connection the test site would have with your working forum is that the test site would be created from the backup files and database you got from your working forum.

Maybe you don't do backup either because you find them complicated and to much work?


--- Quote ---Akeeba back-up
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Can't you just backup through your cPanel?

ilucato:
Hi AJ, I fail to see it too :0), but as I said before, I don't use a localhost/WampServer, just the work forum, so, that is why I said about avoiding tests.

MrPhil:
If you don't want to set up a standalone PC-based WAMPP/XAMPP server to do testing, just set up another database and subdirectory under your site, install SMF there, do the conversion on a copy of your database, and play with it to see how you like it. So long as there is no link to the test SMF forum, the search engines won't index it. Depending on how long it takes and how active your present forum is, you might even just cut over to the new SMF and abandon-in-place the old forum.

ilucato:
Hi MrPhil, thanks for your tips, although I'm a little newbie with certain settings.
 You tip is a good suggestion, I'll get to do on-line without messing the work forum, but in a copy as it as the work forum'. The only problem as a newbie I'll  try to find out more info how to clone my actual site & database into a different folder and play the conversion with it.

MrPhil:
Actually, you may not need to move or copy many of the files (just some). To clone the files, just copy them over. You might find it easier to "zip" or "tar" all the files into one package file, move that over, and unzip or untar into the new directory. That would be easier than using your site control panel to do one at a time. You could also mass download the files to your PC (FileZilla, etc. FTP) and mass upload to the new place. Just be sure that you force the transfer to be in binary.

As for the database, see if your site control panel has a "copy" feature. If not, back up the database into an .sql file, create a new database, and restore the .sql backup into the new database. Databases are kept in their own special place, and you do not copy files around.

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