Greetings, I’m planing to migrate from SMF 2.0.9 to Discourse. I already have discourse running and everything is working fine. So my question is it possible to “RESET” discourse to look like i installed it fresh. And then migrate to Discourse from SMF? EDIT: Also i have Woltlab 4.0.8 forum runnin…

No, unfortunately there is no reset feature. You may need to reinstall Discourse and manually copy the things you wish to keep, i.e. your design, customizations, category settings and such. Migrating SMF2 to Discourse is quite possible, but because it involves interacting with the Linux console and…

Thanks @elberet for replying. I decided that i’ll start clean and just copy the important topics from last site. I’ve bulked all email and sent invite codes to users so no problems. Also changing host in containers/app.yml name from lets say “www.oldname.rs” → “www.newname.rs” should be simple ri…

You may need to run a script inside the container that rewrites internal links embedded in posts, but that’s it. There’s also a howto about changing the domain name . :slight_smile:

[image] dbm: So my question is it possible to “RESET” discourse to look like i installed it fresh Yes, actually - remove the postgres folders in /var/discourse/shared/standalone, then rebuild the container. That will wipe out your database.

Thanks guys, appreciate all help. Definelty best support of any project i’ve meet so far. Cheers!

[image] elberet: install MySQL on the new Discourse server and import an SQL dump. Does this mean that I have to install the mysql server inside the docker or in the server?

[image] elberet: cd /var/discourse && ./launcher enter app apt-get update && apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev su - discourse gem install mysql2 cd /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts ruby smf2.rb /shared/smf -h $myql_server -t $php_timezone For who us wondering about how to use th…

We have a couple of SMF migration guides these days. SMF2 to Discourse - The Ultimate Guide How to migrate from SMF2 to Discourse

Migrating from SMF to Discourse

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justin (Justin DiRose) Mars 4, 2020, 2:00 11

Nous avons quelques guides de migration SMF en ce moment.

De SMF2 à Discourse - Le guide ultime

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