Source forums exporters to NodeBB, I need your DB Dump.

[bentael]

@Steve and @xCausxn, the vbulletin plugin is released.

@Steve Thanks again for your db dump.

you don't need to install it, just select it from the list of source exporters in the config.

It's not yet compatible with nodebb@master, you need to use the latest stable release. [email protected]

Also, I recommend that you use the latest importer plugin [email protected]

so

cd /path/to/nodebb

rm -rf node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import
npm install nodebb-plugin-import

# or 
npm update nodebb-plugin-import

# then activate it from the ACP and use it in there.

Also, after the import is complete, you can use the post-import tools to convert the BBCode to Markdown

Let me know if you're having issues.

[xCausxn]

@bentael Legend :d

If your not busy could you help me with some nodejs

[bentael]

i saw your chat msg, ill reply there

[Shard]

Any interest in Drupal based forums?

[bentael]

@Shard sure, I basically don't have a finite set of source forums, whatever the people wants

[Shard]

@bentael Okay. Let me see what I can do to scrub them.

[Shard]

@bentael You've got mail - it may be too large, let me know if it doesn't show.

[bentael]

@Shard got it ! thanks,

I will take a look at this the following weekend, I'm on a tight schedule with a long backlog of work.

[bentael]

maybe sooner, looked at the schema, seems pretty straight forward

[julian]

I didn't see the earlier post about post bookmarks until now, but that cannot be migrated over. Post bookmarks are specifically a client-side feature, meaning your bookmarks on one machine (e.g. a desktop) don't carry over to another (e.g. a laptop).

It could be a server-backed feature, however, just at the current time, it is not.

[bentael]

@julian are you talking about migrating old forums URLs that use the location.hash to "scroll to posts"?

I don't think it would be too hard.

https://github.com/akhoury/RedirectBB redirects solely on the server at the moment, however, i can have it
serve a blank page (or with a "redirecting" text in it) and in that page a script tag that reads the hash value, the old _pid, sends a requests to RedirectBB instance to get the corresponding new pid , then re-write the URL with client-side javascript instead of doing it all on the server.

Sure it won't be seamless, but, it shouldnt be too slow. The RediectBB instance loads the Map in memory, so there is no DB call.

[Steve]

thanks @bentael you rock man, glad my db was able to help unlock some of the import mysteries.

setting up a test node now to screw around.

[Steve]

Clean nodebb install on digital ocean.. added the plugin, when i activated it now I can't get nodebb to stay up.. but we all know my history or breaking things here going to screw around a bit and see if i can figure out what went bonkers here.

so close...... I CAN TASTE IT!!

edit: ok i used a different set of setup instructions let me kill this droplet and redo it quick

[Steve]

Okay.. when I actually go to Install the -vbulletin plugin via the ACP it kills the site and I can no longer connect to it.

I'll email you admin/login details so you can poke around at what I broke in case it helps anyone else, I'm in no rush at all here just playing around..

[Steve]

Thanks for the help @bentael it's connected to the DB and importing now.. I'll post an update / screenshots / whatever once I get it to the promised land

[bentael]

@steve don't forget to use the post-import tools to convert the content to Markdown,

[Steve]

I'm doing that now but it has been running well over an hour now.. Starting to wonder if it croaked on me or not.

yup totally crapped out on me and killed the site again.. hey i'm a professional at this

[Steve]

here's the error I'm getting from the log file in ./nodebb log upon trying to start the site.

info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
info: [app] Database connection closed.
info: [app] Shutdown complete.

[a_5mith]

@Steve said:

here's the error I'm getting from the log file in ./nodebb log upon trying to start the site.

info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
info: [app] Database connection closed.
info: [app] Shutdown complete.

You will need to run ./nodebb dev, there will be a full error before that when it crashes, but loading the log after the error won't load it sometimes.

[bentael]

@Steve

• which exact version of NodeBB are u running against? (don't use master yet, use 0.5.0 or 0.5.0-4 if you have to)
• also, check the "log on client" option, and paste the last few (5 maybe) logs you see on the browser
• try running nodebb via either the ./nodebb dev or NODE_ENV=development node app (the latter skips using loader), paste the logs.
• how big is your DB? is it the one you sent me? I was able to import it in few minutes.