Hi, I’ve a big board with a database of over 8GB size with vBulletin 4 and I’m evaluating to switch my forum to Discourse. So, I’m trying to convert my vB4 db to Discourse: how to do this? I’ve noticed the script at this link discourse/script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb at main · discourse/discour…

I’ve tryied with this guide: Increasing the Base Device Size on Docker Daemon Restart — Project Atomic But the only thing I got is to corrupt my Discourse container and also if I recreate it i get some strange errors and so I can’t bootstrap/start the container. How I can switch to the aufs storag…

I’m trying your fixed script, but I get this error: root@disc3-app:/# bundle exec ruby /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb /var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:2:in `require': cannot load such file -- rails/all (LoadError) from /var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:…

Try entering the container using: ./launcher enter app

I also tried to login as discourse user (into the container): root@disc3-app:/var/www/discourse# su - discourse discourse@disc3-app:~$ cd /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts discourse@disc3-app:/var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts$ ruby vbulletin.rb /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.…

Keep using the enter method, Add mysql gem to the Gemfile, run a bundle install, run the script.

[image] Falco: Keep using the enter method, Add mysql gem to the Gemfile, run a bundle install, run the script. For “enter method” you intend the ./launcher enter app bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb or launch with su - discourse cd /var/www/discourse/script/import_scrip…

The first one, that’s the correct way.

I did the following steps: [root@disc3 ~]# cd /var/discourse [root@disc3 discourse]# ./launcher enter app which: no docker.io in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin) And after I added the mysql gem to gemfile root@disc3-app:/var/www/discourse# echo "gem 'mysql2'" >> Gemfi…

[image] Matheeus: sudo gem install mysql2 Don’t do this. The bundle install is sufficient. [image] Matheeus: bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb Try RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb

[image] Falco: [image] Matheeus: sudo gem install mysql2 Don’t do this. The bundle install is sufficient. [image] Matheeus: bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb Try RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb Nothing to do, same error …

How to convert vBulletin 4 database to Discourse?

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) Septembre 14, 2016, 8:22 29

Step 11 in this howto might help you.

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