Migrate an SMF2 forum to Discourse

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Great guide! It really helped me migrate a large SMF2 forum to Discourse and I’m loving it.

Just two notes:

  • The host’s smf2 path might be different. In my case it was /home/ubuntu/smf2 (EC2 instance running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image).
  • After the import is finished, the user needs to destroy the import container because if not, that’s the one that will run on server boot (instead of the app container).

Tips:

  • Run the import using a large EC2 instance (c5.2xlarge) and then downgrade to a smaller type (t2.medium) - for me it took about 1.5 hours to import a forum with 28k messages and 10GB of attachments!
  • If you’re planning on using S3 for uploads - then set it up before running the import!
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