Upgrade phpBB 2 to phpBB3 (part 2)

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Now I have the brand new installed phpBB 3 forum. In the final step of installation, I click "proceed on to convertor" to start converting the phpBB 2 to phpBB 3.

1) First, the welcome page shown.
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2) Enter the old phpBB2 database setting into this page.
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3) It will verify the setting which is entered above.
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4) Click "Begin convert" to start.
It shows that the Avatars and smilies images will be copied from the old forum.
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5) Converting
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6) There are 7 steps for last statements.
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7) Continue conversion of clean
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8) It is time to synchronize the forum
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9) Generate topics posting information of forum
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10) The final step of converting
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Remove the install folder to access the full forum function.

11) After some test and I decided to replace the old phpBB 2 forum by this phpBB 3 forum
SSH to the server.

rm -f -r forum.g2soft.net
mv fourm3.g2soft.net forum.g2soft.net

12) Login the forum and change the server URL setting to http://forum.g2soft.net.

The screen shoot of this forum:
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Very useful. thanks for this information.

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This page contains a single entry by David Yin published on January 21, 2008 2:54 PM.

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