Hi all, I’m a moderator on c-plusplus.net , a site currently employing PhpBB version 2. Switching to a modern software is long overdue, and Discourse is a strong candidate. However, we’re afraid that a migration might be impractical, as the package we’re using is so incredibly outdated. We are awar…

As migrating from version 3 is supported, would it not make sense to upgrade from 2 to 3 and then migrate?

There’s no direct migration path from phpBB2. I suggest that you first upgrade to phpBB3 and then use the phpBB3 importer. That should work fine. I myself have a phpBB3 forum that was upgraded from phpBB2 years ago. The migration to Discourse works fine. Make sure you keep a copy of your old phpBB…

Well, those answers are pretty concordant. @chrisalley , I’m glad that someone has converted a similar forum to Discourse before - that’s the kind of PoC I was looking for. @gerhard Thanks for your list as well, I’ll keep it in mind. Btw., the gap between our software and this one is astonishing… …

Migrating a PhpBB2 forum to Discourse

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chrisalley (Chris Alley) 2015 年 8 月 6 日午後 10:02 4

I’ve successfully migrated a phpBB2 forum to Discourse (through phpBB3). See this topic for details of some issues I encountered.

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Change from phpbb to Discourse Migration phpbb	11	4424	2022 年 7 月 25 日
Migrate phpBB3 forum new data to existing discourse forum Migration phpbb	5	1093	2023 年 6 月 21 日
My phpBB Migration Journey (postgresql) Migration phpbb	23	2068	2023 年 3 月 30 日
Import into hosted service Migration phpbb , hosting	3	1454	2017 年 9 月 23 日
phpBB3 import script improvements Migration phpbb	11	2840	2017 年 7 月 19 日

Migrating a PhpBB2 forum to Discourse

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