Hello, i'm a newbie in using phpBB and I still lack knowledge in mySQL database. How do I transfer the datas(users,configs, all of them) contained in my current forum to another one in phpBB? I hope someone can help, a short but detailed tutorial would be good. Example is, if I want to move to a new host and I want to transfer all the accounts on my old forum to the new one. Thanks in advance, hope anyone here knows how to.

ey kabayan almoo17...try reading this posts from phpbb

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=9

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=211646&highlight=

now if you have many mods installed on your phpbb board..heres a great admin utility mod.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=218865

and if you have phpMyAdmin, just read the help files there..its very useful since you would personally learn how to export and backup databases (believe me, im a noob too )

Wow! Thanks kabayan. Those guides were really helpful. Now I can successfully move my files even if I move to a new host. Thank you very much. You have enlightened me. Now I have less worries.

And, of course, do not forget my very nice tutorial which gives step-by-step instructions exactly for that :


My tutorial is here : http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=12629&hl

Please be somehow mor specific. Which informations do you need ?
So, I already have two questions :
1) Do you already have an existing working PHPBB forum you want to move somewhere else ?
2) Did you already try my step-by-step tutorial quoted above, and which you wil find here : http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=12629&hl
3) If you were not successful using my step-by-step, bad luck, you will have to read the documents inside the links provided by wedjarl in the present post.
4) then, if it's still not working, please come back here and tell us, we will try to help you overcoming this isssue.
Regards
Yordan

Hi..
This is what you want in the Userguide :
http://www.phpbb.com/support/guide/#section5 _2 _1

That's easy.. i use phpBB in Portuguese so what i'll type here may be not samely as the english version:
go to the admin area on yours phpBB(http://your-phpbb-url/admin). On the menu(left side) click on "Copy Database", choice your configurations and clicl on "Backup"... now u have a file with phpBB backups, go to the new admin phpBB area, in the left side click on "Restore Database", select the file and click on "Restore". WOW the magic is done
Try to interpret the words on "" used here, as i said it's a translation by me, so on english version may be not the same..
good lucky

I think phpBB databases are the hardest to transfer, vBulletin and IPB are swift for me.

Just nice for me. I've been very doubtful about migrating my phpBB database to another server, so I've been sticking to the old expensive web hosting. Thanks for this tutorial. Cheers

Are you talking about porting an old database to a new one, with the same version of a bulletin board used on both databases? They're all piss easy and the process is precisely the same - dump, restore. Use phpMyAdmin rather than the features on the admin panel.

They're even easy between different versions of one product; it only gets more challenging for different software (luckily enough converters exist). It shouldn't take too long to spot the differences in how the data is kept, run your script to change all the sql values and you're golden.
Even if you can't get it right the first time, back-ups are your friend.