Convert Xenforo to Invision

[Marc]

4 minutes ago, Greek76 said:

Oh dude it’s a nightmare. 

Certainly sounds like it. Hope you manage to get things sorted

[Greek76]

So I managed to transfer the XF database and get it to work well. I just downloaded invision and I'm going to begin the conversion process in about 20 minutes. Wish me luck!

[Miss_B]

1 minute ago, Greek76 said:

So I managed to transfer the XF database and get it to work well. I just downloaded invision and I'm going to begin the conversion process in about 20 minutes. Wish me luck!

Best of luck!

[Greek76]

Do I have to fully install invision before I start the conversion?

Edited January 8, 2022 by Greek76

[Daniel F]

Yes, you have to install the suite to run the conversion 

[Greek76]

Ok so I keep getting invalid path for my avatars even though I've entered the correct path.  Any ideas?

Public_html/Xenforo/data/avatars/

This is typically: /path/to/xenforo/data/avatars
 The path entered appears to be invalid.

 

[Miss_B]

5 minutes ago, Greek76 said:

Ok so I keep getting invalid path for my avatars even though I've entered the correct path.  Any ideas?

Public_html/Xenforo/data/avatars/

This is typically: /path/to/xenforo/data/avatars
 The path entered appears to be invalid.

 

The P should be in small letter. i.e. public_html

What folder is xenforo installed at? 

[Greek76]

3 minutes ago, Miss_B said:

The P should be in small letter. i.e. public_html

What folder is xenforo installed at? 

I figured out what I did wrong. I had to add /home/etc/public ...

Edited January 8, 2022 by Greek76

[Greek76]

The conversion went swiftly and so far everything seems to be working fine. Invision's converter made it seem like a piece of cake once I figured out that I had to include the everything in the path. I want to thank everyone for their help.  

Edited January 8, 2022 by Greek76

[Miss_B]

9 minutes ago, Greek76 said:

The conversion went swiftly and so far everything seems to be working fine. Invision's converter made it seem like a piece of cake once I figured out that I had to include the everything in the path. I want to thank everyone for their help.  

Glad to hear that the conversion went fine. Enjoy your newly Ipb forum, as it is truly an amazing software.

[Randy Calvert]

18 hours ago, Greek76 said:

The conversion went swiftly and so far everything seems to be working fine. Invision's converter made it seem like a piece of cake once I figured out that I had to include the everything in the path. I want to thank everyone for their help.  

Absolutely!  The conversation was cake. As you’ve most likely seen, now it’s just a matter of fixing all of the permissions and running through all of the settings. That will be the longest part. 

Also… in case it was not said earlier… don’t delete the converters later. It’s what handles the redirects from the old XF style URLs to the IPB format.  

[Greek76]

4 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

Absolutely!  The conversation was cake. As you’ve most likely seen, now it’s just a matter of fixing all of the permissions and running through all of the settings. That will be the longest part. 

Also… in case it was not said earlier… don’t delete the converters later. It’s what handles the redirects from the old XF style URLs to the IPB format.  

I will definitely not delete them for sure. Thanks!

[Marc]

22 hours ago, Greek76 said:

I will definitely not delete them for sure. Thanks!

Very glad to hear you managed to get that conversion through. 🙂 

[Greek76]

6 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Very glad to hear you managed to get that conversion through. 🙂 

Yeah it was pretty easy once I figured out the path meant home/etc/