Nitro Porter, the inter-software migration toolkit

Jbugy

Hello,

I am looking to use nitro booster to convert my forum from an old IP to flarum, yay!

Now because I wish to stay on cPanel, I have found in the past that it’s quicker to download the database, do the upgrades on the database then upload again.

Would this work for flarum? Can I upgrade offline and then renable?

Would love to run my own box but it just seems such a nightmare to setup and secure!

clarkwinkelmann

Jbugy I don't know anything about using Nitro Porter, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't run it on a local copy of your forum as long as you have access to all the tools locally (PHP, Composer, etc.)

Whenever you work on a copy of your forum offline for development, testing or migration, you don't have to make it accessible over the internet so there's very little to configure in term of security since you are already working behind your private network firewall. To get PHP and a webserver on a regular PC for development there are many tools like XAMPP that makes this process easy.

The only potential issue I can see is if some tool automatically reads and stores the currently used domain name, which would likely be localhost when working locally. Even if the wrong URL ends up in the database, it's often very similar to when you would move from a domain name to another. You can perform a few search and replace in the database to fix it after you identify which tables/columns are impacted, or do the search and replace on the SQL dump itself afterwards.

Jbugy

I can’t get this to run. It says to dump to web root (so that’s public-html right?) and edit the config.

I then get errors when installing via web browser with bootstrap saying it’s missing Porter\Config but there isn’t even a folder called porter

If I try using CLI it tells me that there is nothing to install

Any help gratefully received

Jbugy

So after much copy and pasting it started via the web (still no luck via cli) but then immediately failed on unable to connect to database for the flarum side after selecting the drop downs required. Given this is a perfect connection to the already installed flarum I am not sure what’s going on?

Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: Database connection [bob] not configured. in C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php:161 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php(124): Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager->configuration('bob') #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php(95): Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager->makeConnection('bob') #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php(300): Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager->connection('bob') #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php(74): Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager->reconnect('bob') #4 [internal function]: Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager->Illuminate\Database\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\Database\MySqlConnection)) #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(802): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\Database\MySqlConnection)) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(782): Illuminate\Database\Connection->reconnect() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(763): Illuminate\Database\Connection->tryAgainIfCausedByLostConnection(Object(Illuminate\Database\QueryException), 'insert intoPO...', Array, Object(Closure)) #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(674): Illuminate\Database\Connection->handleQueryException(Object(Illuminate\Database\QueryException), 'insert into PO...', Array, Object(Closure)) #9 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(490): Illuminate\Database\Connection->run('insert intoPO...', Array, Object(Closure)) #10 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Connection.php(454): Illuminate\Database\Connection->statement('insert into PO...', Array) #11 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\Query\Builder.php(2978): Illuminate\Database\Connection->insert('insert intoPO...', Array) #12 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Storage\Database.php(189): Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder->insert(Array) #13 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Storage\Database.php(171): Porter\Storage\Database->sendBatch(Array) #14 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Storage\Database.php(93): Porter\Storage\Database->batchInsert(Array) #15 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\ExportModel.php(235): Porter\Storage\Database->store('Discussion', Array, Array, Object(Porter\Database\ResultSet), Array, Object(Porter\ExportModel)) #16 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Source\IpBoard3.php(783): Porter\ExportModel->export('Discussion', 'select t.*,\n ...', Array) #17 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Source\IpBoard3.php(202): Porter\Source\IpBoard3->discussions(Object(Porter\ExportModel)) #18 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Controller.php(29): Porter\Source\IpBoard3->run(Object(Porter\ExportModel)) #19 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\src\Controller.php(118): Porter\Controller::doExport(Object(Porter\Source\IpBoard3), Object(Porter\ExportModel)) #20 C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\index.php(12): Porter\Controller::run(Object(Porter\Request)) #21 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\forum\public\vendor\illuminate\database\DatabaseManager.php on line 161`

linc

Jbugy Could you post what you had in your config file AFTER replacing the password with some other text?

aurawindsurfing

Hey @linc I have send you my contact details via form provided. Can you have a look or PM me here. I have Discourse to Flarum migration to do. Thanks!

linc

aurawindsurfing Sure, I emailed you back today.

luisg

I am using sdebacker/vanilla_to_flarum

And I have a problem: When It imports the posts, it seems like raw code.

The editor of vanilla Forums interprets that code but flarum not.

You tool solve this problem?

At Vanilla I use Rich2 editor.

Thanks!

linc

luisg You tool solve this problem?

Which post formatting type are you using? It should work for the Rich Editor, but I am still working out issues with the older wysiwyg formatter. It mostly works right now.

luisg

I am trying to install this tool but I have the following error:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Porter\Request::parseWeb() in C:\xampp\htdocs\n\index.php:7 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\n\index.php on line 7

With composer install:
composer install You are using Composer 1 which is deprecated. You should upgrade to Composer 2, see https://blog.packagist.com/deprecating-composer-1-support/ Loading composer repositories with package information Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file Nothing to install or update Generating autoload files 49 packages you are using are looking for funding. Use thecomposer fundcommand to find out more!

It seems like all okay.

What can happend?

Thanks.

Jbugy

luisg I had problems with xmapp. In the end I had to run WAMP, but I also never go this plugin to run sadly

linc

luisg I am trying to install this tool but I have the following error:

I think you are getting the main branch version instead of the current release.

Try composer require linc/nitro-porter/package:3.3.0 instead to grab the stable release.

Or, download the already-built release from GitHub to sidestep Composer entirely. The zip file on this page: linc/nitro-porterreleases/tag/v3.3.0

I'm currently removing the web client from Porter (to make it CLI-only) which is what that error likely is about.

luisg

linc Yes, Rich Editor. Thanks!

linc Or, download the already-built release from GitHub to sidestep Composer entirely.

Thanks! I get it.

But now I have another error :/

I have cloned vanilla database and a new flarum installation dabatase.

I set config.php at nitroporter and I get this:

Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: Database connection [flarum] not configured.[...]

What can happend?

wbntff

linc
Hi,
did you happen to look at that SQL file.
I could run it with XMB 1.19.12 but it generates errors as its written for older versions of php and in future may not work at all.
Recently i tried converting it again to SMF 2.0.0 with older converter.
It does convert members and topics but stops midway at 5600 posts, where as total posts are 26000+
There was nothing much i could do to proceed further as nobody at SMF supports this converter anymore.

phpBB converts from SMF (that too 1.1), not from XMB

AdamOD

Hi all

I'm running a managed, containerised (docker), instance of Flarum on elestio and about to start migrating a Drupal8-based forum across from another platform and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction or share their experience with me.

Installing extensions in this instance is done though adding an include statement in the docker_entrypoint.sh file. I've added one for linc/nitro-porter but when I spin up a CLI and try to run porter I get the message that "porter isn't installed." What am I missing here?

Also, I note that nitro-porter only seems to cover Drupal 6 & 7. Has anyone had any experience/success in modifying it to work with Drupal 8?

Any and all advice gratefully received.

luceos

AdamOD nitro Porter is not an extension. It's a library, a package.

Spez

Hello. I plan to move my Xenforo forum to Flarum. I'm just learning about composer. I don't know English so transferring this data is quite difficult for someone new to composer like me. I hope someone can record a video on how to use Nitro Porter on YouTube. Thank you very much.

Spez

linc Hello. I have a Xenforo forum with about 2000 members and a few hundred threads. I've been searching all week but still can't find a way to transfer. Please help me migrate data to Flarum. I thank you very much. I will write a thank you note to you in the footer of the website forever.

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