[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 12 months ago]

It looks like you used wp_forums_\ as the table prefix on the importer settings, as a quick guess I think it should be wp_

Edit: You can confirm what this value should be by opening the wp-config.php file in the root of the WordPress install that has Mingle forums installed.

/**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
 * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 12 months ago]

Typically the ----- dashes occur once you are no longer logged into your site, opening up another page and refreshing it every 2-3 hours eg. http://example.com/wp-admin/index.php should get you around this issue.

As long as you don’t hit memory issues drop the delay time from the default 1 second down to 0.1.

I’d have at a guess the 5,000 & 10,000 settings you tried might have actually been too much, I’d love to be able to get some more SQL debug messages into the output display though to achieve this much of the importer needs to be rewritten so that will happen in a future release.

Down the track I’d like to write some bash scripts to do this directly (using WP-CLI) but this is a way down the track and is not planned at this stage.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks for this and yes, confirmed 🙁

I have added a patch to the bbPress Trac Ticket #2472

I also added the full Mingle.php with the patch included, could you download this and test it.

It should fix both the issue where multiple topics have the same title and also renamed topics.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

The only other thing I can think of is switch to the Twenty Twelve theme, disable all your plugins and go for a look around your site. If you don’t see the issue elsewhere now enable BudddyPress, how about now? Next enable bbPress, now? Back to your theme, check again, enable each of your plugins one by one.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

I’m not seeing this on any of my installs, try running the ‘Repair BuddyPress Group Forum relationships’ repair tool https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

I am not that familar with mod_fcgid but a quick search landed me here if that might help
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-error-when-creating-package?replies=6#post-4873684

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Dropbox are using the old bbPress ‘Standalone’ 1.x version with some custom theming, though I wouldn’t recommend installing this old version as I am quite sure they have lots of customizations in the backend to get around the known numerous issues with the old version.

Go with the new version https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/installation/

Then start customizing the templates to the style you want
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Just FYI for anyone else who sees this topic:

The forum role is not actually set until the user logs in for the first time at which time they will then be assigned the role defined in the settings.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Same problem, it’s just hanging.

What stage do you get to though now?
(As you shouldn’t be seeing “Delete users WordPress default passwords Deleting previously converted data” etc)

“Deleting Conversion Table… Failed”

This is fine, it just depends on if bbPress used a conversion table to do the conversion or it used the source database tables correctly.

As well as the actual users there are a lot of bots etc. (e.g. AdsBot Google, Ask Jeeves Bot)

These are special phpBB user accounts that I haven’t found a way to ignore importing just yet and must be manually removed after importing, see the follwing for a list of them all.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Are you using the WXR Importer?

There was a ‘Google Summer of Code’ project recently and the WordPress importer was forked and updated, if you have issues with the standard version maybe give that a try.

Details and links can be found via https://make.wordpress.org/core/author/frederickding/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

If you don’t see something like this then something else is messing with you 😉

What other plugins are you using that might be altering your users panel?

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Run each of the Repair Tools one by one 🙂
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

That theme you are trying to install ‘Static-Blue-BB’ is for the old standalone version of bbPress and will not work with the current version of bbPress 2.x Plugin for WordPress.

bbPress now use’s your WordPress theme, i.e. your ‘main theme’, if you want to tweak the templates of your theme click the ‘themes’ link at the top of this page and follow the link there.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Closing this topic as it relates to the old standalone bbPress v0.9/v1.2x version of bbPress.

None of this information is valid for the current bbPress v2.x Plugin for WordPress.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

bbPress uses WordPress ‘Custom Post Types’ so there are not any bbPress tables to index.

That said we are looking to improve the performance with bbPress in a few areas, take a look at Trac Ticket #1925 for further reading 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Did you import the users twice?

Presumably you should see user1 & imported_user1 in wp-admin user panel?

You should be able to delete imported_user1 and it will prompt you to attribute everything to user1 via a dropdown selector.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Thanks for the update, if I get time I might take a peek at the ‘Kiss Portal’ mod for phpBB, it would be nice to finally get your forums imported into bbPress after soooooo much time. It took me a good 6 months to get my original site from phpBB to bbPress and now I write all the forum converters 😉

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Do not check the following setting:

Purge Previous Import Purge all information from a previously attempted import

Do check the following setting:

Start Over Start a fresh conversion from the beginning

There is something weird going on with the above that ‘Purge Previous Import’ setting that I am looking into, it works for some and not others and is really bugging me 🙁

In between imports if it doesn’t finish and you need to try again you will manually have to delete the imported users from the WordPress User admin panel and reset bbPress’ forums as per https://codex.bbpress.org/reset-forums/.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Awesome everyone, there are still a couple of the regex expressions I need to fix, otherwise it would be commited to /trunk of bbPress now 😉 hopefully I will get these fixed tomorrow. 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

@stagger-lee Thanks for taking another look at this, most appreciated. 🙂

I have a couple of ideas that I will try tomorrow and that should also include the removal of the hard-coded jos_ prefix.

Out of curiousity did you use Kunena2.php or Kunena3.php this time round?

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Thanks heaps for this, I can see what you mean and I will go do some more testing and work on a patch for it.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

@jaredatch/ has an update for this plugin that hasn’t been pushed live yet.

Grab the link via this post https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-in-bbpress-24?replies=5#post-4687693

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

Do you have the Akismet plugin activated and have a valid API key?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Akismet

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

I have just commited the three versions of Kunena bbPress importer for bbPress 2.5

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/converters

Kunena1.php for Kunena v1.x Forums
Kunena2.php for Kunena v2.x Forums
Kunena3.php for Kunena v3.x Forums

If you could all give them some tests and let me know if it works or doesn’t work that would be great.

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

It depends on the size of your old bb, but should take less than 30 minutes for any install.

@robin-w Not quite true, typically yes, when importing boards with up to a few thousand topics/replies it should be done in under 30 minutes.

Get into the tens of thousands, hundreds and even millions this does take a bit of time. 😉

[@netweb Keymaster 13 years ago]

At what point do I give up and start again. Should it take over four hours?

You should see it start and offer you some sort of notice that it has within seconds.

Via FTP or your web host cPanel admin etc, open your phpBB config file /public_html/phpbbv3/config.php and make sure these are the values you are using on the bbPress importer screen.

<?php
// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'mysqli';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbport = '3306';
$dbname = 'my_phpbb_database';
$dbuser = 'my_user_name';
$dbpasswd = 'abcdefgh';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';

(The $dbhost & $dbport may be blank as thats the default so use the settings I list above which are the default on the bbPress importer anyway)