guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 Forgive me if this is already answered somewhere else. And forgive me if I should have asked in a different section. I am trying to convert my phpBB2 forum to SMF. I already have a phpbb2 forum active. I created an SMF forum under the same domain. I downloaded the converter from SMF. When I go to run the converter it asks for my password to the SMF database. I entered all the passwords I would have possibly used and it keeps saying wrong password. My question is this? Does TC give the database a different password? How do I find the password of my database? My admin password doesn't work. Quote
TCH-Andy Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 Hi, The username and password is the one you created for it in cpanel, and added as a user to that database. Have you tried that one Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 You should be able to find the user/password for your database in the config file for phpBB. The DB password is usually different than the one you set for the admin user. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 Hi, The username and password is the one you created for it in cpanel, and added as a user to that database. Have you tried that one When I created the forum through Fantastico it created the database. It did ask for a password then and I used that password. I also tried my regular admin password. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 You should be able to find the user/password for your database in the config file for phpBB. The DB password is usually different than the one you set for the admin user. It says I need the password for the SMF database Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 There should also be a config file for the SMF forum you created. The user/password will be available in that. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 It says I need the password for the SMF database P.S. The password in the config is encrypted. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 Ok, maybe it wasn't encrypted. i used the password from the SMF setting file. it gave me a different error. Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of phpBB2. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it. The error MySQL gave was: SELECT command denied to user 'myname_smf1'@'localhost' for table 'phpbb_users' Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 Add the SMF user to the phpBB database. That should help. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 Add the SMF user to the phpBB database. That should help. I'll try. Not sure I know exactly HOW, but we will see. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 In cPanel select MySQL Databases. Your databases will display. At the bottom of the list of databases there is an add user function set of boxes. Select the user to add in the left box (SMF user) and the database in the right box (phpBB DB) and click the Add User button. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 I'll try. Not sure I know exactly HOW, but we will see. Cool! OK I tried that in a "Test" forum and it worked. Thanks. now I can do it on the real thing. thanks a million. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 OK, I did the exact same thing in the REAL forum and it gave me the same error. Weird. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 added the phpbb user to the smf database and added the smf user to the phpbb database. Nothing. Arrgg.. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 Do you have any mods installed on your phpBB that you are trying to convert? Have you tried the SMF forums for help? Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 Do you have any mods installed on your phpBB that you are trying to convert? Have you tried the SMF forums for help? The only mods I have are to the themes, not the data itself. Yeah I have posted at the SMF forum too. but that was before I figured out the password problem. I will go back there and see if they have any ideas. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 I don't know if these instructions will help you or not. Did you get the correct version of the converter for the phpBB forum you are trying to convert? Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 I don't know if these instructions will help you or not. Did you get the correct version of the converter for the phpBB forum you are trying to convert? Yeah, the test forum was the same. the major difference was the subdirectory names and the amount of data. Quote
guita01 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Posted December 20, 2006 and I've already seen and done it just like those instructions. Quote
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