Moving forum?

Phaser

Phaser

Phaser

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Is this possible?

Basically, I want to delete my forum, reinstall a fresh one but keep the users/topics etc.

I've done a database backup.

Do I just install the new forum, enter the same mySQL info as i'm using now, and then upload my database file afterwards?

Is it possible to set the new forums up on a new mySQL account and still use the old database backup to restore topics/users etc?

Cheers.
 
Yup. Just make sure you use the same version of the forum software.

All you have to do is update the database info in the forum's config file :)
 
Installed the forum on the new mySQL database. Just trying to restore the backup so I can get the old users and topics back etc. Been uploading for about half an hour now, and im getting worried lol. :confused:
 
Finished uploading and I was greeted with a blank white screen in the admin panel.

Please don't say i've lost 800 users and thousands of posts. :|
 
Script probably timed out. Email the SQL dump to your hosting provider and ask them to restore it :).
 
90MB! Might be better in that case to upload it via ftp and give them the location ;).
 
If you have shell access you can do...

mysql -u username -ppassword database_name < filename

But I doubt you do :)

Upload it to a non-public directory in your FTP space - ie, not in the htdocs/public_html/www (whichever variant they use) folder :)
 
I think I do have shell access, theres something on my cPanel saying SH/Shell Access which opens a command box?

I guess the username/password should be the same as my hosting?

Will upload the previous database backup to the folder outside the public_html
 
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