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How to Migrate from SMF to Vbulletin Using CMS2CMS
Edited by Martin Wann, Maluniu
Frequently speaking, nowadays there are a lot of website owners who migrate their data from SMF to vBulletin. In case, if you have your forum on SMF, but now want to use vBulletin board, you are welcome to check up this straightforward instruction. There you will find how to perform SMF to vBulletin migration with CMS2CMS tool automatedly.
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1Install your new vBulletin website. You need to buy a license or try it by free. Then, you should find the hosting provider for your future project.Ad -
2Back up your current SMF forum. Just save all the data on USB flash drive, external storage device or any hard drive. It’s recommend to make the reserve copy of your site to exclude all the risks of data losses.
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3Go to cms2cms.com and sign up your account. -
4Type your SMF and new vBulletin URLs. -
5Download and install the bridge file. It will be saved as “cms2cms” zip.
- Then, you have to connect to your SMF and vBulletin sites via FTP client software.
- Within FTP dashboard copy the “cms2cms” folder and paste it into the root directories of your SMF and vBulletin websites.
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6Process of transfer. Press start free demo and check up your SMF migration in progress. When the demo migration is over, and you are satisfied with the result then run Full Migration.Ad
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- When the SMF to vBulletin migration is over, you should ask your forum users to change their passwords as far as automated converter like CMS2CMS does not support the migration of passwords. You may put in your site banner with a request of recover passwords.
- Check out all the content, and test everything after the transfer is complete.
- Choose the time of a switch when your forum gets the least visitors.
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