I have distilled the instructions into a thread, which you can find here:
I hope it helps!
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Generally the migration to Kunena has been excellent, however I have run into a another problem. I can’t figure out how to properly convert some of the posts, which appear like this:
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]I have just finished
the first draft abstract – deadline is Dec 4 at 5 pm for SAEM. I would
appreciate any and all feedback re below. In particular the results
section will need to be fleshed out given our ongoing data analysis, but
everything else is up for comment also.[/COLOR][/FONT]
It’s obviously some kind of markup language that doesn’t seem to apply to all posts. What is it even called so that I can figure out how to translate it? I vaguely recall “BBCode”? Is that what this is? Any thoughts re: how to convert it?
Update: Yes, it’s BBCode. Just trying to figure out how to do the conversion now
The forum I have is complex in that it represents at least 3 distinct eras from as far back as 2005. As such, I’ve just been hand-fixing the BB code with some regex, and will leave it as such. Also, some of the very old posts don’t have the owner properly attached, which is a real nuisance. I’ve also just been handfixing them as I run across them…
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Thanks for this. I have finally managed to get the Kunena import script working after a lot of trial and error (not a ruby developer).
I now have a workable database in a Vagrant machine in the discourse_development db. I’ve exported it and imported it into a production discourse setup but now I’m seeing 500 Internal Server Error on the production site.
Are the databases exactly the same or is there something special I need to do when importing a development database into production?
I assume this has been sorted out by now, but just FYI, the conversion process isn’t a direct DB copy. Instead, you have to do a backup / restore as per these instructions.
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