Migrating from mybb

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

The usual method is to install a development environment, copy the database to the development server and run the script.

You might use this howto as an example:

Importing / migrating from vBulletin 4

In this tutorial we will learn how to migrate vBulletin forum to platform using vBulletin importer script. I have tested the script with a big database and the result was very good. The script is well written and maintained. Let’s get started What data can be imported? Groups Users Banned Users => Suspended Users Forums Each parent and child forum => Category and Sub-category Topics Sticky Thread => Pinned Topic Closed Thread => Closed Topic Soft Deleted Th…

Rather than configuring the script as that example suggests, just run it and it’ll tell you what environment variables to set.