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SMF Support => Converting to SMF => YaBB/YaBB SE => Topic started by: swagg on July 01, 2008, 07:08:52 PM

Title: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: swagg on July 01, 2008, 07:08:52 PM
How do I do this?
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: swagg on July 01, 2008, 08:33:59 PM
i downloaded the php files already

heres the links
old forum
http://tinyurl.com/59nzvc

new forum
http://tinyurl.com/5z7dmy
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: SleePy on July 02, 2008, 01:16:30 PM
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=4.0;sort=subject (http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=4.0;sort=subject)

Hopefully that helps :)
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: swagg on July 03, 2008, 11:32:33 AM
"The first thing you need to do, before you can convert, is upload all of the files in the installation package found on the downloads page to your server in, preferably, a directory other than your current software. You can upload it to any directory accessible by URL."

i dont get this step
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: SleePy on July 03, 2008, 12:56:41 PM
That would be installing SMF :)

Have you installed SMF? The converter assumes that when you perform the conversion that you have a working version of SMF running.
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: swagg on July 03, 2008, 01:26:37 PM
Yes..
I posted links to the forums.
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: SleePy on July 03, 2008, 01:30:57 PM
Then you can safely move on to the next step as SMF is installed  :)
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: swagg on July 03, 2008, 03:02:30 PM
I can't get this step to work..

Once that's done, use your browser to go to http://www.yourdomain.tld/forum/convert.php, where www.yourdomain.tld/forum is the URL to where you put SMF. You should be presented with two boxes - one for the path to SMF, which should already be correct, and another for your software. The converters will detect if the path is correct for you, so if it takes a few tries, don't worry. You will also see a box for the current password - this should be the password for the MySQL account you installed SMF with.
Title: Re: Converting YaBB 2.1 to SMF 1.1.5
Post by: ThorstenE on July 03, 2008, 03:22:03 PM
do you have uploaded the convert.php and yab21_to_smf.sql via FTP? put both into the SMF-Directory and then open in browser: http://crackmusic***.com/convert.php
the path to SMF should be already the right one, for the old yabb put /forum to the path..