I am a retired LEO and IT professional.
I have been involved in some type of communication platforms from the mid 80’s when I ran a multi-line BBS under OS/2.
I now run one primary website (Xenforo) that deals with astronomy and astrophotography but do tech work for a friend that is using NodeBB on a Xenforo alternative support site.
@julian said in Migration from vbulletin possible?: > @Astro-What would you believe that there could be a solution for that too?
Yes, and I am also aware of several paid services that will migrate from one script to another writing a custom importer/exporter if they haven’t already. :wink:
It is just a drawback to encouraging someone running another free script to converting over. Most of those running the free stuff are doing so because they don’t want to have to spend money.
Migration is one of the things I think NodeBB is going to have the hardest time over. I moved a site that was on SMF2.1 over to NodeBB recently. I had to manually recreate all my posts and then create the users manually copying their data from the old SMF forum over to the new and resetting a password. Those users were notified via email that they would need to perform a password reset if they desired to continue using the site. The adoption rate would probably be higher if there were easy migration from other scripts into it. I am thinking primarily older vB installs, myBB, SMF and phpBB as the biggest ones.
Have you checked your error logs? Both in NodeBB and if you are using nginx (or apache) as a proxy in them?
If you are just setting the site up and have no content, have you tried redoing it again following the guide?