yes, point and click importer from phpbb…  now, it wont import everything…  brings across users, groups, forums, topics and posts…  give it a shot and see if you like the results – only takes a couple minutes to run…  do it on test install or just revert the wp site back with db backup after trying…

but actually, we have heard some good things about gconvert… usually for imports that our importer doesnt support or if there is other explicit things wanted that our importer doesnt grab…

Too bad I didn’t try that first.

I was so certain that these people could do the job, but they are messing up things, and suddenly they rolled back my WP database back to where it was a couple of days ago, so my own WP-posts, some of my users-wp-posts and images + some WP-settings are now gone. It should not have anything to do with the forum convertion…

They told me to let phpbb3 stay untouched, but they did not mention that I should put my whole site down..

It really ***** me off!

Sorry guys, not your fault – just needed a place to cry it all out..

wow, does sound like bad experience…  if a site needs to go down for the conversion, that is fine, but should be for short period of time where nothing can be added…  rolling back sucks…

Mr Papa said
yes, point and click importer from phpbb…  now, it wont import everything…  brings across users, groups, forums, topics and posts…  give it a shot and see if you like the results – only takes a couple minutes to run…  do it on test install or just revert the wp site back with db backup after trying…

but actually, we have heard some good things about gconvert… usually for imports that our importer doesnt support or if there is other explicit things wanted that our importer doesnt grab…

How do I install the importer (Aha – PLUGIN!) , and is the only thing missing from the importer the “PM’s” and the attachments?

since not a user of phpbb, cannot be exact, but yes think thats it – attachments, pms…  oh and avatars…

yes, its a standard wp plugin… will add new forum admin menu for the importer…

It doesn’t look like the conversion tool works on large amounts of data.

I have about 170.000 forum posts, and 4500 users.

The users where OK, but it failed on something like 500 internal server error after the first forum.

Too bad. I guess I can only hope that gconvert can do it then…

we have run it on larger datasets than that… what was the error? did you look in the server error logs? maybe you were just running out of memory… did you try the utf-8 option?

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/mudytest/public_html/bv2013

can you increase that? its whats stopping it from completing… either increase in your php.ini file or in .htaccess

It looks like it fails on max_execution_time and max_input_time, so I’ve increased these to 600;

It fails on this: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in /public_html/bv2013/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/sp-api/sp-api-filters.php on line 2002

I’ve even put the php.ini file inside that directory, hoping this would fix the problem.. but no

(Checked with phpinfo() and it does say this:

It runs good for the first 21 forums, but then it fails on a forum with 57436 posts..

Any ideas?

so might be time to contact your host…  the php.ini file they use must be elsewhere??  it does not seem to be using the one with the 600 seconds set…

I run this on a VPS which I control myself. When I check my WebHostManager, these are the values that are set:

max_execution_time: 30

max_input_time: 60.

My php.ini says now 5000 for both, but the scripts again fails at 120 (?)

I now have absolutely NO idea.. Any inputs from you guys at all, would help a lot

that could vary alot…  does your vps give you WHM (cpanel on steroids for domain management)?

maybe try putting it directly in the importer code…

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

in the file sp-import/engine/spimport.php

and see if that helps…

Mr Papa said
that could vary alot…  does your vps give you WHM (cpanel on steroids for domain management)?

maybe try putting it directly in the importer code…

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

in the file sp-import/engine/spimport.php

and see if that helps…

 

Thank you for giving me directions, and I wish I could say thank you, that worked! – But when it comes to php and programming, I’m as bad as my great grandmother… and she isn’t that good..

So could you tell me what to put, in what file – I would send you some flowers.. At least in my head.