Hi All,

Hoping someone out there can help me. I am converting my old website into wordpress and am trying to import my forum into bbpress but have run into a problem. I can’t seem to get the import to start.

I fill in the database details on the import page using the details from my config.php file and then click start, the page displays the “Starting Conversion” status and the loading circle is spinning but that is as far as it gets.

I had read all the pages and guides and forum posts I can find for a week but cannot figure out where I am going wrong.

The forum I am importing is a very small forum compared to other websites and I have tried leaving the page on this status for 4 hours without any change.

Is there somewhere I can find an error log that would tell me what is going on or would anywhere have any ideas would could be the cause of this

Im running phpbb 3.0.14

Thanks in advance

Richard

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 5 months ago]

Well I just saw your other topic not to long ago. What is the current version you are having trouble with 3.1 or 3??

[@stryke23x Participant 9 years, 4 months ago]

I am also having issues. I have 3.1.5 of phpbb installed. I just get the following.

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

[@richardwil Participant 9 years, 4 months ago]

I don’t think the current version of bbpress supports importing from phpbb 3.1
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2716

Thats more information that I am getting, where are you seeing that output?
Mine just sits on ‘starting conversion’ and never progress any further than that no matter how long I leave it.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 4 months ago]

Users have been posting similar data in topics from trying to import from phpBB 3.1. You guys may need to wait til 2.6 to import successfully. I do not know how well downgrading phpBB will do exactly.