Moving a phpBB Forum

[kvincent]

Within my domain, I host a forum for another website that exists on a free server (with ads). Now that the website is semi-successful, it is desired to get a domainname for it, and host it on a new server, in its own space. I will have control over both domains.

The question: Is there a way to move the forum that exists on abc.com/forum/ to xyz.com/forum/ (and keep all the existing threads). ?

Is it a matter of moving the entire thing, and a few minor configurations. Or, Installing the new forum, setting up the same design, then doing an export/import of the data? If so, is there documentation on this?

I realize that this doesn't fall under official page-zone support, but maybe someone can point me in the right location.

Thanks

[Katrina]

i'm guessing, that all one needs to do to move a phpBB forum (since i use one myself) is make sure it has the same directory structure & the same database name and password but this is one thing that can make it very difficult since i may have a similar problem (except i'm not mobing just the phpbb forum but a php-nuke website entirely which uses a phpBB port).

the path to the database must be the same
the path to script files must be the same
the database name (which will be prefixed by your username on page-zone in the format user_dbname)
the database password

but i've only been fooling with php for two weeks, so it is hard for me to say exactly what this all entails.
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i'm going to be moving my site due to an upgrade in services which allowed me to go from verb.noun.org so now my main domain will be hosted here (noun.org, in addition to 2 other domains) and verb.noun.org is a redirect to verb.noun.org/phpnuke, and my concerns are that once noun.org is locally hosted i must make verb.noun.org one of its subdomains rather than using an extra account, and changing the structure of verb.noun.org/phpnuke will kill it, and changing the name of the account will kill its access to databases (which can be fixed through a very long process, the notion of which terrifies me, since i know of no alternative than manual script editing especially due to all the tweaks i have in place... gaw.. )

[Katrina]

i was totally wrong, you shouldn't have trouble at all, paths in phpBB are relative so you should only have to edit the .cfg file so that if you use cPanel to restore the MySQL database the correct names and passwords are used.. hrm.

the problem i was having only took me about 5 hours to figure out how to fix, and now http://verb.noun.org/ contains all that http://verb.noun.org/phpnuke/ used to, restored perfectly. even though my database name and password ended up different, but all the forums are back to how it was left, and it uses a port of phpBB so i presume it would be the same for you

[kvincent]

Thanks, Katrina. It doesn't sound too bad. I will have to give it a shot.

btw, nice site with the verb.noun.org. With the move you did, you should probably double check your links. A very important one is at the bottom of the website faq.

Just to change the subject real quick...my daughter likes to write, and would like to make some stuff public, but how do you actually copywrite material to prevent spying eyes from taking it to a publisher for money? Any official way? I imagine its a hard thing to track when first starting out. Is it just a matter of submitting the text somewhere, and then *maybe* you'll find out someday that someone stole it, and by your dated submital being your only proof? Can you point me in a direction? I am completely oblivious, but never researched it...just had a conversation like this with my daughter, then saw your site within a couple hours, which is exactly what she is into. Maybe I will post this in your forum.

Thanks again

[Katrina]

please do post this question in my forum on verb.noun.org, and i will gladly explain to you the facts of the laws governing "Creative Commons Copyright" or "Common Law Copyright" in the nature of fiction and non fiction as well as its difference from trademarks.

my former roommate is a lawyer and has explained to me in an hour what it took him 6 years in school about the coulds and mays of legal bindings.. it's quite a headache and the explanation for such things doesn't belong on this forum.