hey everyone.. so i just did a backup of my db on vb and thank god i did.. the person who was hosting me i guess didn't pay the bill.. so i got hosting with godaddy again. i still have that backup saved so my question is can someone point to the right area where i would need to begin?

like is there a link that i can follow the instructions on? thanks!

Quote from: Phil Serna on June 20, 2008, 04:51:17 PM
hey everyone.. so i just did a backup of my db on vb and thank god i did.. the person who was hosting me i guess didn't pay the bill.. so i got hosting with godaddy again. i still have that backup saved so my question is can someone point to the right area where i would need to begin?

like is there a link that i can follow the instructions on? thanks!

Hi and welcome to Smf

Have a look here. It explains in detail how to convert to smf. Hope it helps

http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=4.0;sort=subject

thanks.. i hope i can get this. :-D

Quote from: Phil Serna on June 20, 2008, 04:58:09 PM
thanks.. i hope i can get this. :-D

You are welcome. If you run into problems just post here and I am sure more people will help you out further as well.

Good luck with the conversion

See my reply:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=238435.msg1585818#msg1585818

i may have a problem. i was looking at the converting and put my link to convert, but it's asking for the path of  the vb which i don't know.. any other on doing this?

i was being hosted by someone in which i guess they got suspended. so i don't know the path. ?

It is looking for the path to vB so it can use it to do things such as find the config file and copy attachments/avatars to SMF.
You can make up the config file, but if you don't have vB anywhere then you won't be able to recover attachments/avatars.

what about the post's? members? and everything else?

As long as you have the database those will convert.
But you need to at least fake the configuration file so it knows the database name and prefix of the vb database.

how do i go about that sleepy? i would really like to get the info up on my board.

you just need a directory that will be used as the vb root directory. You then create a folder in that called "includes"

In that folder create a new file called "config.php"
and put in it:
<?php$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';?>

You then change those values to make your vb database name and prefix (if any).

okay so since i have my forum in my root. your saying to create a folder called includes.. then create a .php and toss it inside the includes folder. am i correct?

the file needs to be named "config.php" but yes

yeah thats what i meant to say. :-D

Quote from: SleePy on June 21, 2008, 06:28:56 PM
you just need a directory that will be used as the vb root directory. You then create a folder in that called "includes"

In that folder create a new file called "config.php"
and put in it:

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<?php$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';?>

You then change those values to make your vb database name and prefix (if any).

i have a question on this part right here.

the db name.. is it going to be the new for smf?

It is the name of the database that has the vb database in it.

I keep on getting this

QuoteSorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of vBulletin 3.6. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it.

Did you make sure the SMF MySQL user can access both the SMF database and the VB database?

How do i go about that? Thanks Sleepy

You should ask your host about this for more details
Since every host is different it would be hard to give instructions on how to do this.