[herkules209]

Hello,

I decided to use bbpress for my forum and made a conversion with Vbulletin.
Everything worked and everything was taken.

Unfortunately all vowels (umlauts/Germany) are not shown correctly: They are shown as question marks.
I checked the database and there all is correct (öäüß).

Does anyone know how I can change this?
Any idea?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Stephen Edgar]

I moved your reply in this topic to a new topic as they are separate issues.

You shouldn’t have a problem with your setup if you follow the docs:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[GamerPerfection]

I hope this is the right place to ask.

I am moving away from vBulletin (yay) and on to WordPress.
Currently I have vBulletin 4.2.0 which includes forum and CMS.

When I move to WordPress I will not be using bbPress (at least for now).

Is it still possible for me to export my vB users and import to WordPress 3.5.1 if i’m not using bbPress? And if so, is it easy to do?

Thanks.

[iosqar]

Hi!

A week ago I migrated my vbulletin forum to bbpress, and everything seemed to be working fine until yesterday.

I’m using bbpress 2.3, the forum shows all counters, but to see the detail of each subforum it just shows nothing. The funny thing is that if the URL of each subforum I add “?view=all” parameter … it shows all!

i.e

1.-If you type the url of my forum:

http://myforum.com/foros/

All is fine til here …

2.-select a subforum

select the GENERAL subforum

http://myforum.com/foros/foro/general/

and then displays the following:

As I mentioned above, if i put “?view=all” parameter you will view all content

http://myforum.com/foros/foro/general/?view=all

and then displays the following:

I have not changed even one line of plugin code (neither blog)

Any Idea?

Thanks!

[themattman]

There are vBulletin Topic tags, yes, But they won’t convert.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using the latest bbPress 2.3?

What version of vBulletin are you using? I have only tested vBulletin 4.x

Here is the list of known issues with vBulletin https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

[Stephen Edgar]

I have only had access to test vBulletin 4.x to test importing into bbPress.

Does vBulletin 3.8.x support topic tags at all?

Also this doc has any other known issues https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

[Stephen Edgar]

@themattman Can you please start a separate topic so we can go through your vBulletin issues.

When you start this new topic can you please include the exact details of the error messages you are seeing.

You also should not be running the ‘repair tool’ whilst the converter is still running, you run it after the conversion has finished. You may also want to check the docs here for any known issues with vBulletin conversion.

[themattman]

Hi,

I’ve been trying numerous times to convert from vBulletin 3.8.1 to bbPress 2.3.

I get most of it converted until I get this message:
***** = database username

`WordPress database error: [Table ‘******.tagcontent’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(tagcontent.contentid USING “utf8”) AS contentid,convert(tagcontent.tagid USING “utf8”) AS tagid,convert(tag.tagtext USING “utf8”) AS tagtext FROM tagcontent AS tagcontent INNER JOIN tag AS tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100`

Any ideas what it means and how to fix? I can’t get pass this step and it screws the forum up, even if I repair the forum.

and as a result, it won’t allow the users replies to transfer either.

[themattman]

I’m getting errors on converting vBulletin to bbPress where it won’t convert tags. Once I “repair”, it says that it fails on converting users, as well as no replies have converted.

[themattman]

Yeah, I’m having this issue too and I’m on bbPress 2.2.4

[themattman]

Hi,

After a few attempts, I got my forum converted from vBulletin to bbPress. But I forgot to click on the Username conversion, so everything came up as Anonymous. I deleted the conversion fully and started again. This time: I clicked on the “Attempt to import user accounts”.

Now this comes up:

`WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘user.user_nicename’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(user.userid USING “utf8”) AS userid,convert(user.password USING “utf8”) AS password,convert(user.salt USING “utf8”) AS salt,convert(user.username USING “utf8”) AS username,convert(user.user_nicename USING “utf8”) AS user_nicename,convert(user.email USING “utf8”) AS email,convert(user.homepage USING “utf8”) AS homepage,convert(user.joindate USING “utf8”) AS joindate,convert(user.aim USING “utf8”) AS aim,convert(user.yahoo USING “utf8”) AS yahoo FROM user AS user LIMIT 0, 100`

If I continue and skip this step, the forum converts still but all the posts will be anonymous.

How do I fix?

[Stephen Edgar]

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

What version of vBulletin are you converting from?
What part is it stuck on or is it just not starting?

That is the key is to ensure you have the correct values for each of these:

Select Platform – vBulletin
Database Server IP or hostname
Database Port Use default 3306 if unsure
Database Name Name of the database with your old forum data
Database User User for your database connection
Database Password Password to access the database
Table Prefix

Have a look in your vBulletin config file which should be in your vb install /includes/config.php

[limitx3m]

It looks like the issue can be created by:

1. Converting my vbulletin database to bbpress
2. Turning on buddypress
3. Make a new parent forum for the groups. ( Usually called it “The Nation”)
4. Select group forums to be placed in “The Nation” in the buddypress options
5. Create 2 groups.
6. Move/create topic in each group.

You will see each group will share the same topics. If I make a new group, that group will have all the topics of the previous groups.

It’s not duplicating the topics, but rather the group forums just contain every thread from other group forums.

BBpress 2.3-rc1
Buddypress 2.7 beta 2
Wordpress 3.5.1
Multi site

[Stephen Edgar]

It should work 😛

Though there are vast improvements in bbPress 2.3 for importing vBulletin aso grab bbPress 2.3 RC1 for starters https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/03/bbpress-2-3-release-candidate-1/

Here is the known issues with regard to vBulleting imports

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

You probably want to double check your vBulletin Username, Password, Database Name and Database Table Prefix if you are getting errors such that you list above as having one of these wrong is typically what causes what you list above.

[Stephen Edgar]

@pdblizzard Strange that users don’t import correctly if BuddyPress is enabled…

What version of BuddyPress were you using and group or sites idle forums enabled?

I will try to reproduce it if I can…..

[Pam Blizzard]

I am also converting Vbulletin 4.2.0 over to BBPress 2.3-rc1 (not 2.2.3) and hopefully BuddyPress. I had the same problem with users not coming over.

I found that if I disabled BuddyPress, and ran the conversion, my users came over with no problem.

Now that I’m enabling Buddypress and have a few glitches, such as the members page not displaying members, and the registration page not displaying.

[limitx3m]

@netweb

I’ve sent you an email and information. I guess we’ll continue communication through email to get to the bottom of this.

Thank you so much!

[Cyph3r Smurf]

Hey,

I have tried to import my Vbulletin forum to bbpress for the past few days.

I use the import function and checked the information with the config.php file from the forum that’s still up and running.

When I try I just get this info:
Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
Starting Conversion

Anyone with luck to import their vbulletin forum? I’m running vbulletin 4.1.12 Patch Level 2

[Stephen Edgar]

Sure… Drop me an email and I will have a look.

[limitx3m]

@netweb

I’m having a lot of trouble getting all the vbulletin issues resolved.

I’m hoping that you can personally help me so that we can assess the issue. I’ve made several reports across bbpress and buddypress but I guess I can’t exactly explain to them the problem it seems. Especially since the issue could be either bbpress or buddypress.

Could you help me get to the bottom of it so that I can at least figure out what to report on which trac?

[pixelnated]

I just wanted to chime in and say I was hitting the exact same issue with importing a very old forum in and this got me over the hump. Thank you VERY much! I was just about to start translating out the insert queries and attacking it through mysql alone.

This forums data has been for a ride over the years and manually about half the time (starting around 2000) ubb -> phpbb -> vbulletin -> smf -> phpbb -> vanilla -> bbpress

So loving how much processes like this have improved over the years! Much appreciated!

[maggieymae]

Yep Good point- I did do the import with no plugins installed and that’s why I reported it was a success…then I looked at it later and the topics were gone. After I posted here I realized I went a little crazy adding plugins so I disabled them all and activated them until the problem showed up again. Thanks again for offering a way to grab the posts from vbulletin and thanks for the bbpress wordpress plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

I would do the import without any other plugins for bbPress enabled to ensure you have what you expect without the chance of things like that happening.

Also bbPress Moderation plugin has some compatibility issues with bbPress 2.3.

[maggieymae]

Hi Again, I figured it out. It was a plugin called bbPress Moderation. Apparently the plug in considers all the imported topics to be worthy of moderation but there is no way to approve them. lol Interesting.