MyBB to NodeBB Importer?

Nifty

@TaLoche No need for a dump. Give me 10h to check it out.

TaLoche

@Nifty You have 10h Jack Bauer style then. Thanks again!

a_5mith

TaLoche

Now you're talking!

Nifty

But it all has a price... :

bentael

@Nifty let me know if you run into issues

a_5mith

@Nifty said:

But it all has a price... :

Some people go skydiving to experience life on the edge, I run master NodeBB in production.

TaLoche

@Nifty said:

But it all has a price... :

I'm okay with that kind of invoice to pay, since I'm stuck without you!

Nifty

@TaLoche It was the soft delete option of Mybb1.8. I removed it. Just Upgrade the import plugin and you are fine.

TaLoche

@Nifty Thanks a lot for this!
I gave it a go and it didn't work. So, I started a fresh installation of Nodebb and Mysql, exported my database in Mysql and this time, I got the users, the categories and the topics. But in each topic I've only got the first post (OP).

A few topics have all their posts but that's like 2% of the topics.

Sorry to bother you with all this!

julian

@a_5mith Hey, we run master in production too!

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@a_5mith, remember when you didn't take risks like that - but I convinced you it was a great idea, so you gave it a go - and then everything broke?
Everything's been a lot smoother than then lately xD

bentael

@TaLoche

cd /path/to/where/this/plugin/is/installed/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex

Then edit test.js, with your favorite editor to enter your real database info
it's this file https://github.com/NiftyXXL/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex/blob/master/test.js

then try this

node test.js

after that's done, it should have written a tmp.json file, open it, it's probably big, but deal with it, take a look at the data, can you find the posts?

if there are too much stuff in there, change this line

from

    fs.writeFileSync('./tmp.json', JSON.stringify(results, undefined, 2));

to

    fs.writeFileSync('./tmp.json', JSON.stringify(results[4], undefined, 2));

this will only write the posts to tmp.json, then open it again and take a look.

if the posts are not in there, that means it's this exporter's issue, if they are, that means it's my plugin's issue

I can help so much without access to the data or the server.

Nifty

@TaLoche Did you saved the Log Files to the Server ?

TaLoche

Thanks guys for your help.

@Nifty I'll send you as requested my db export.

@bentael I'll give it a go right now to see what happens. Thanks for your help.

TaLoche

@ bentael I edited my test.js, put all the info for my database (name, user, password), put the file back.

And ran node test.js but I got this:

taloche@mynodebb:~$ module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module '/home/taloche/forum/test.js'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:906:3

Nifty

@TaLoche You run into a known Problem, it is fixed on nodebb 0.6 but not in 0.5x. Please change the following file

Find this file NodeBB/src/groups.js LINE-454, change
From
if (err) {

To

if (err && err.message !== '[[error:group-already-exists]]') {

Kill nodebb before. And then just re import. Thanks to @bentael for this solution.

TaLoche

Hi again Nifty, I had made that change, since everytime I follow @bentael's steps to set up the import plugin.

Just in case, I did it again and still the same error.

bentael

@TaLoche said:

Error: Cannot find module '/home/taloche/forum/test.js'

You're calling node test.js from working directory that does not have a test.js file in it. are you in the NodeBB root directory?

test.js is not in the NodeBB directory root, judging on your forum path, and depending how you install the mybbex exporter, I think that test.js should be either

in here:
/home/taloche/forum/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex/

or

in here:
/home/taloche/forum/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex/

didn't you edit it?

just find it, cd /to/that/directory then run node test.js and the tmp.js would be a sibling to test.js

bentael

so, ASSSUMING this is the right directory, here are the steps again

cd /home/taloche/forum/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex/

edit test.js somehow, put in the right DB info

node test.js

remember your working directory is already /home/taloche/forum/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import-mybbex/