I have been tasked with moving a Ning community of 17500 users to Discourse. I have gotten the user adding part working using a modified version of the Discourse API for PHP from here https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-api-php. I plan to parse in the full 17500 users and then work on them one …

Why aren’t you using the ning import script ? :thinking:

Because I don’t know Ruby at all and I do know PHP. If it’s possible to use without extensive Ruby knowledge then I’ll gladly use that instead.

There is a howto topic here: [image] Migrate a Ning forum to Discourse packageMigrating to Discourse Want to migrate from Ning to Discourse? Great! Let’s get started. What data can be imported? Users Avatars Directories/Categories Topics & Posts Images Attac…

So I can do the import to a local Discourse instance and then restore that to the production version? Will the restore override the settings on the production version? If so then this won’t be viable as loads of configuration has been done on the production version.

[image] Frank_Bailey: So I can do the import to a local Discourse instance and then restore that to the production version? Yes, restoring a backup does this. [image] Frank_Bailey: Will the restore override the settings on the production version? Yes, except for those settings in your…

Dean, your final suggested process is what I settled on. I’m going to give it bash and see how it goes. I’ll set up two local instances and try restoring from the one to the other and, if all goes well, then do the same to the production server. Thanks very much for your advice!

Okay thus far I have tried installing Discourse locallt using the Vagrant method mentioned in the howto. This wasn’t successful as I got stuck with a fatal error during the bundle install. The debug_inspector failed to install and the bundle could not complete the build. I then tried the Bitnami Di…

The Bitnami Discourse install is not supported or recommended. You need the Discourse that you’re restoring to to be the same or newer version as the one that you did the backup from. I’m pretty sure that the avatar import on Ning works as expected.

After starting from scratch with the Discourse Vagrant container and once again hitting a wall, I have decided to cut my losses and upload the users with the PHP Discourse API helper. Once the users are uploaded I will upload the avatars. Can anyone possibly give me an example of what the curl synt…

Uploading 17500 users and their avatars using PHP

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DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor) October 9, 2017, 2:59pm 5

There is a howto topic here:

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Uploading 17500 users and their avatars using PHP

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