Hopefully you noticed … we finally migrated this site to Joomla 1.5.
It took two months of planning and then two weeks of solid work to do the migration. Why so long? The Joomla core team have done their job but third-party developers are terrible at explaining how to move their extensions from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5. Even those that bothered to write instructions still hide them as if it was their dirty socks.
So, in the hope it will save someone else sometime, here are the migration instructions you’ll have a hard time finding elsewhere:
Joomla Core
We tried Mtwmigrator and it worked well for Weblinks, Newsfeeds and other core components but it made a mess of any articles that contained {mosimage}. The Joomla core migrator was much more successful.
JomComment
Solution found by digging through some old forum posts.
- Step 1: Export the Jomcomment database tables from 1.0
- Step 2: Install Jomcomment on the 1.5 site:
- Step 3: Delete the Jomcomment database tables on 1.5 and import the old tables from 1.0
- Step 4: Run the database query listed here.
Fireboard
Mtwmigrator worked great.
Community Builder
Tried Mtwmigrator but that didn’t work at all well. Found the solution by trial and error.
- Step 1: Export the Community Builder database tables from 1.0
- Step 2: Download administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
- Step 3: Install CB on the 1.5 site:
- Step 4: Delete the CBt database tables on 1.5 and import the old tables from 1.0
- Step 5: Upload the old ue_config.php to administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
Elearningforce Comparison Chart
Solution found by contacting support.
- Step 1: Export the Comparison Chart database tables from 1.0
- Step 2: Install Comparison Chart on the 1.5 site:
- Step 3: Delete the Comparison Chart database tables on 1.5 and import the old tables from 1.0
iJoomla Digistore
No obvious migration route. Either you’ll need to write your own script or hire the iJoomla devs.
Account Expiration Control
No obvious migration route. Either you’ll need to write your own script or hire the AEC devs.
Moving Fireboard to phpBB3 and JFusion
- Step 1: Set up an empty Simple Machines Forum installation
- Step 2: Use this convertor to move Fireboard to SMF
- Step 3: Set up an empty phpBB3 installation
- Step 4: Use this convertor to move SMF to phpBB3
My thoughts on JFusion … it works well but there are a lot of hacks and plugins needed to get the forum up to scratch and integrated inside your Joomla site (frameless mode). Hat tip to Vic from JCalPro for helping with a lot of these.
- Ensure dual login to phpBB3 and Joomla: Use this plugin
- Ensure the phpBB3 template doesn’t break the Joomla template: Use this version of the Prosilver template
- Make sure emails aren’t sent out with broken links: Go to your phpBB3 folder / language / en_US / email / and edit the email templates
There are quite a lot more hacks you may need to make depending on your situation, but I will say this … the JFusion forums are remarkably helpful and there’s nearly always an answer in there.