Hello guys We have 2 working discourse forums and we would like to merge them. Is there a nice simple way to do this? thanks

Not that I know of. I guess you’d have to write an importer. Should be pretty easy to do since the db schema is the same :slight_smile:

@jmamazo did you do the merge the two discourse installations? Did you write an importer? I’m in the same situation…

[image] Discourse 2.1.0 beta 2 Release Notes megaphoneAnnouncements New features in 2.1.0 .beta2 Script to merge two Discourse sites We’ve been asked many times and now you can do it! The script will allow you to merge two Discourse forums into a single site …

Hello @neil Now version 's Discourse is 2.1.0 beta 5. At this time, Everything is available for merge 2 Discourse forum? Do we have step by step to merger them? Thank you!

I have started a wiki post here: [image] Merge two Discourse sites into one packageMigrating to Discourse If you have two Discourse sites that you wish were one, this guide is for you. There’s a tool called discourse_merger that can take one Discourse site an…

Dear @neil . I have started this process but with little success. It seems as though this discourse_merger is defaulting to using the user “discourse” to peer with the postgres instead of user “postgres”. I am getting inevitable peer authentication errors no matter the environment I work with. A mo…

I think there are some missing options for username, password in the initialize method: script/bulk_import/discourse_merger.rb main def initialize db_password = ENV["DB_PASS"] || "import_password" local_db = ActiveRecord::Base.connection…

Got it, will try. And thank you!!! -Walker

I am going to try this and see. def initialize local_db = ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config @raw_connection = PG.connect(dbname: local_db[:database], host: 'localhost', user: 'postgres', port: local_db[:port]) @source_db_config = { dbname: ENV["DB_NAME"] || 'copyme', hos…

It works with @raw_connection = PG.connect(dbname: local_db[:database], host: 'localhost', user: 'postgres', password: '<put your password here>', port: local_db[:port]) It’s a hard-bake but at least it goes. I had to do following to get password set: sudo -u postgres psql postgres \password pos…

Merging 2 discourse forums

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justin (Justin DiRose) January 8, 2021, 3:44pm 19

Most of this stuff has been answered now in the merger howto.

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Merging 2 discourse forums

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