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I second this question. Is it possible to do so?

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.  

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 ...

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.

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

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!

Worked thanks

I redownloaded the ips suite from my client area under manage purchases, uploaded but no option for pages in the applications section. 

I just purchased the Pages app and I'm just curious as for where do I download it from? Do I have to redownload the whole invision forum software again or is it a separate download? Thanks!

Oh dude it’s a nightmare. 

58 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you want IPB to import attachments, avatars, etc you’ll also need to provide the paths to those. The converter will ask you where to find them. So just make sure you have the files dumped somewhere and know the path. You don’t have to deal with permissions or editing scripts though at this point. 

I'm still dealing with the restoring his back up on to my server. So many issues with the dude's host and not to mention he's ever hardly on during the day speed things up. I have a feeling that the conversion will much less of hassle if and when I get to it. 

13 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you’re doing that, just toss the files somewhere in a sub folder, and then restore the MySQL database. If you want to actually access and login to the old instance you’ll need to edit the Xenforo config file to specify the new absolute paths and URL (and possibly the DB credentials). You will also need to fix some file permissions. 

If you’re not bringing the old board actually online you just need the files and database to point the converter to it. 

Good  idea. Once I get the sql imported without any issues I'll definitely do that. 

Just now, Miss_B said:

What do you mean by trying to restore the backup?

You do not need to restore a backup at all. All you have to do is move the forum files to a different folder and then straighten out the urls and paths.

 

No I meant the forum’s database backup. I’m importing it to my server from the previous owners server etc. one and hopefully I get it working on mine I’ll start the conversion process. 

I don’t even think I’m going to get to that point. Trying to restore the backup keeps crashing on me and for my host. Keep your fingers crossed for me lol. 

Hmmmm I’m definitely not expert but one of the issues that I had with my logo at first was that there was too much space around it. So I made the logo with no space around it and it worked. It’s just an idea that’s you could mess with. 

38 minutes ago, Miss_B said:

They should be on separate folders. What is the url to your xf forum? Do you have installed it in the root or in subdomain or other folder?

Xenforo is installed in the root hence why Im kind of confused on where to upload  my invision folder. 

The only way I know how is by making your header larger. Did you try that? Theme/settings?

Question.. I upload all the invision files to my public_html folder  but what do I do with Xenforo files that are already in there?  I can't delete the xenforo files yet I'm assuming because I need to do convert no? 

3 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

My biggest challenge was when I did the conversion, I consolidated some of the groups.

On the old Xenforo instance, there was Supporters2018, Supporters2019, Supporters2020, etc.  When I moved the site to IPB, I made a new Supporters group and consolidated all of them into the one group.  The only “challenge” I had was that users groups ended up listing “Supporters” multiple times. 

Outside of that, it was pretty painless.  After the conversion and before you turn back on your new board, I would suggest making sure you go back and check permissions for each member group as those don’t automatically get set.  Personally I would run through EVERYTHING to make sure all of your settings are correct.  You’ll spend several days afterwards catching minor oddball things.  Like needing to add permissions for mods to bypass rate controls etc. 

Sounds like a plan and thanks for the advice. 

1 hour ago, Randy Calvert said:

I converted a site from the 2.1 Xenforo pretty painlessly.  It did take awhile, but this site had 10K members and over 5M posts and over 400K a private messages. 

At least on the 2.1 converter, topic redirects worked for me.  You have to make sure to keep the converter installed afterwards I believe.  

This forum is pretty small compared to that. I’m hoping that if I convert it goes easy. 

1 minute ago, Askancy said:

I converted a community from XenForo to IP.Board, the converter worked great, too bad it doesn't generate a redirect system and so the indexing of XenForo is lost....

What does that mean the indexing of XenForo? 

So far it works like a charm. Thanks Adriano!

This one wont be on cloud. I'd by the actual forum software and have it on my host. 

I just bought a forum that runs on Xenforo and I'd like to convert it to Invision. Is it possible to do and if so how difficult is it? Thanks..

4 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

 

Made a quick test and seems to work just fine:

 

It sends the notification:

 

And the most important: it doesn't show anywhere, since message is a private thing:

 

Let me know if anyone wants to test it. If no issue is found, I will submit to marketplace.

I’d definitely like to try it out Adriano.