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Moving the forum
PurpleYouko:
Uploads are most likely (can't say for sure without the source code of the forum) held as fields in the MySQL database on the server so a full dump of the forum followed by a reload into identical software at DarwinBots.com webspace should really keep everything intact.
If it all goes off without a hitch then the transition should be seemless.
You did say it was the same forum format right? If not then what type?
Avatars or their urls, are definitely stored in the database. Most forums allow upload of the avatar to their webspace then store the path in the database entry.
Let me know if you need help setting up the new forum. I have gotten pretty good at that kind of stuff lately. I would also love to get a good look at the php code that runs invision boards
Numsgil:
It's the same software so there shouldn't be any issues. Once they give it to me I can't imagine it taking more than 2 hours to get everything seemlessly transfered. Probably less than that.
I'll keep everyone aprised. They've been a little flakey considering I've been asking for 2 weeks.
PurpleYouko:
Cool
It should be pretty straightforward providing both systems are using the same version of database.
The last time I transferred a forum it took about 2 minutes. You just need to run a simple query from "phpmyadmin" which I assume is on your webspace already as it is provided by the host. Of course you have to know the database password. You also need to make sure that the table names don't conflict with the ones used by the Wiki. Sometimes you might need a second MySQL database to do this but it should be OK on one.
Numsgil:
We have 10 databases total, so I'm just going to move the forum onto one of those.
PurpleYouko:
Nice.
That will certainly be the best way to go.
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