Thank you for this converter. I just wanted to report that I was able to use this successfully to convert from
MyBB v1.6.7 w/
MySQL to phpBB v3.0.10 w/MySQL.
My
forum has this address format:
forum.website.com. On disk that equates to
public_html/forum. I did the following:
- Went into the MyBB settings and changed the site location from forum.website.com to mybb.website.com.
- Using FTP on my server I renamed ../forum to ../mybb.
- Using cPanel I created the subdomain mybb (so that I could still interact with MyBB if I needed to, but I did not). While there I also created a DB for phpBB.
- Using FTP I created a new folder named ../forum.
- Uploaded phpBB full install to the new ../forum directory.
- Back in the browser I went to forum.website.com and performed the phpBB install.
- Uploaded the MyBB converter.
- Went to ../install/index.php to perform the conversion.
- Clicked the buttons until it was complete.
All important data (users, forums, posts, groups, etc) seems to have been imported properly, however none of the permissions were carried over, so all of the forums were hidden (no access granted). Assigning
forum permissions in phpBB is not as "quick-n-simple" as in MyBB, but phpBB is much, much more granular in the range of permissions that it allows.