# How to use mybb.ru 2 import script?

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** mybb\
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-mybb-ru-2-import-script/139425 "2020-01-22T14:40:38Z")\
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> [@Paul\_King](#):
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> The biggest hurdle so far seems to be in achieving a development environment that allows the script to actually connect to the running MySQL

The phpbb importer has instructions for creating a container with mysql. Whether they’ll make enough sense for you to be able to run mybb in it I don’t know.

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