Move Data to Another Domain

[Strawbee]

This is tentative but... I'm thinking of working on a new redesign and style of my forums that will be very different and customized, as well as changing the URL of my boards. My forums are currently at forum.neskaya.net.

Now, let's say I install phpBB3 on an entirely different domain - we'll call it x.com. I work on all of my customizations on that domain, and when I'm done with everything I want to do, I want to move all the members and posts from forum.neskaya.net to x.com [different host also] - but I don't want to keep the forum.neskaya.net configurations.

Is there a way to just move the data (posts, members, etc) from one domain to another?

Thanks!


Edit: Forgot to mention I use phpBB.

 

[Subz]

do these steps and they sould help

1.create new forum at new host
2. import old database (from old forums) via phpmyadmin or put it in the 'store' folder and restore
3. configure cookie and server settings
4. do custimisations.
5. release board

this is the process i have used, hope this helps

 

[Strawbee]

Thanks. But will importing the old database restore all the old configurations too? I don't want any of that - no old themes, no old mods, etc. I only want the posts and member registrations.

 

[Subz]

you can upload the old theme and then just change it, the mods would only be in the database, not on the forum, the only configuration you need to change is the server and cookie settings.

 

[Jasonp]

if you are just changing the domain and not the hosting then you dont need to reinstall phpbb3 or import databases

 

[Strawbee]

I'm changing the hosting as well.

And I don't want the mods from the SQL database. I want to work on implementing new mods and a new everything on the new forum while the current forum is running (this may take me months to work on), and THEN transfer the posts and members when I'm done so that there will be minimal downtime for the board and minimal data lost.

 

[Subz]

well i can still move the database to the new server, only because there are mods in the database it doesn't mean you have to install them again does it.

what mods have you currently installed on your current live forum?


there is a mod with a database cleaner coming out soon that may help you

 

[XcapeX]

Can you backup and then restore it to another forum?

 

[Queenmommie]

This is kind of what iam looking at doing as well.

 

[spyka]

Simply create a database backup but do NOT inclue the config table. Should work fine

 

[Subz]

but if you import the database then the config table will be overwritten on the new database unless you backup the new config table before you import the old database