Moving Phorum

Hello, I have an existing phorum with many topics and users, I want to move it to a nother hostig. What is the propper way to do it, I install a new instance of phorum and point it to the database I have downloaded from the existing one or I move everything? I am not a programer and I am sorry if my question is simple and stupid but I wasn't able to find info about this sort of moving. Thank you!

You move everything. Files and the full database.
Then change the settings in include/db/config.php and maybe the HTTP Path in the General Settings.

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Thomas Seifert

Thank you!

Hi again, i moved all the files and the database, and everything works, but when I change a name of a forum let's say it comes out in question marks (????????? ??????). The forum is in Bulgarian can it be some problem with the encoding, I am using utf-8 on the previews hosting and on the new one as well. Please help! Thank you.

What phorum version is that?
What charset do you have defined in include/db/config.php?

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Thomas Seifert

The phorum version is 5.2.6a, and charset is utf8.

Can we see this somewhere on a public URL?

Is the language file also using UTF-8 as the CHARSET?

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Maurice Makaay
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here is the forum, and yes both my lang files are with charset utf-8. That's why I can't figure out why it is doing that. Thank you for the help!

What is the character set for the MySql tables?
If this is a different host, they may have Latin?? as a default, in which case you will need to change that when you create the tables.

do you mean the charset in db.opt file?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2011 06:23AM by pacho_bg2.