I am planning on converting my live forum from IPB to SMF and wanted to do a dry run on my localhost. I got the DB backup from the IPB forum, have a fresh install of SMF 1.1.10 and when I enter the pathway on the local plus convert.php it gives me this
Unable to find the settings for Invision Power Board 2.3. Please double check the path and try again.
I've tried the live url to the IPB forum, I've tried the local version pointing it to the sql backup and I get the same garbage! I've searched here and not seen anything that would really address this issue as I suspect part of it is because it's on a localhost. Another note is that it is not possible for me to install IPB on my local as I am hosting through them and as such the files are encoded, part of the reason for the move.
our converter needs to know the name of your IPB database and the table prefix. This information is stored in the ipb file conf_global.php.
---~ settings: "/conf_global.php"
---~ globals: INFO
---~ from_prefix: "`$INFO[sql_database]`.$INFO[sql_tbl_prefix]"
you should copy that file from your live IPB and modify the database information (the information must match your localhost database name)..
That did the trick!