I’m trying to migrate a MyBB instance and haven’t found a walk-through, so hopefully this can become one. I’m also new to Rails and Docker. So far I’ve installed the Discourse Docker image, launched a local MySQL server and populated it with the data from MyBB. The migration script only says it s…

@elberet , thanks for your help so far. I went for the second option - connecting from the Discourse machine to the MySQL server of the running forum (set to maintenance mode) after enabling port 3306 in the firewall and setting bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf followed by a sudo service m…

[image] bekircem: URGENT: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “discourse” are you running the import script as discourse user? If not, you should su - discourse before attempting to run the rails r part.

Hello, I’m trying to migrate mybdd from myBB to Discourse I use the commands given by Dan Dascalescu But doesn’t work for me .. I posted the log, could you help me ? root@vps:~# cd /var/discourse root@vps:/var/discourse# ./launcher enter app root@-app:/var/www/discourse# apt-get update Hit:1 ht…

Hello, nobody can help me ? Regards,

Try running the script from /var/www/discourse and not the script directory?

Thank you for your reply so I have to copy past the mybb.ruby to /var/www/discourse before ?

I copy past mybb.rb in /var/www/discourse but I have another issue root@vps-app:/var/www/discourse# RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby mybb.rb Traceback (most recent call last): 1: from mybb.rb:1:in `<main>' mybb.rb:1:in `require': cannot load such file -- mysql2 (LoadError) root@vps-a…

You’ll need to install the gem. There are some howto posts for other importers that you should use as a model. You should read those. There are dozens more tiny little things you’ll need to figure out. If you need so by step help and have a budget my context info is in my profile.

Guys, Anyone success migrate from mybb to discourse? i got this discourse@hn-app:/var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts$ RAILS_ENV=production ruby mybb.rb **Traceback** (most recent call last): 23: from mybb.rb:4:in `<main>' 22: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kern…

Try RAILS_ENV=production rails runner mybb.rb

Thanks for the answer, but i got this now /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-6.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:50:in ‘rescue in postgresql_connection': **FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "discourse" (** **ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError** **)** …

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 12, 2019, 6:19pm 43

I usually start tmux (essentially the same as screen) outside the container.

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