SMF Now Auto-Installed by Fantastico

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Im also having problems with fantastico (When i cant be bothered to do it manually)

--My username is Blank. (The admin account i set up in fantastico)

Its like Hey,,You have  I mean ists easy enough to fix, just intersteing

[Col]

That's because you neglected to fill that field in when creating the forum in Fantasico. I've done the same thing myself.

It is only your display name though, and you can create that in your profile.

[GlennSand]

If your host supports CPanel and has Fantastico installed, you should now be able to install SMF with only a few clicks.

I installed a fresh copy the other day in less than 5 minutes.  The only ****** I had is that it was v 1.02 and not 1.03.  Other than that it went through flawlessly.  Cpanel is the 'only' way to go.  I have used several others with different hosting companies and I like it the best of all, so far.

[Gary]

Glad to hear that Fantastico is doing SMF. I found out last night by accident, when I was installing a PHP script for my site. Dont see why they dont remove phpBB too, that sucks, SMF rocks!

[Ben_S]

I installed a fresh copy the other day in less than 5 minutes.  The only ****** I had is that it was v 1.02 and not 1.03.  Other than that it went through flawlessly.  Cpanel is the 'only' way to go.  I have used several others with different hosting companies and I like it the best of all, so far.

You might want to tell your host to update their fantastic .

[NOS ChromeNut]

Hmmm... in reading these posts it seems that Fantastico, or rather the version that is being hosted, my vary from one host to the next.  I installed SMF through Fantastico and it took maybe 7 minutes because I had to get up and get another beer in the middle...lol... anyway, thinking of converting from phpBB to SMF on all my boards, just giving it a test run for now though.

[[ACE]$tealth]

Ello all

I've read loads about SMF and from what it seems SMF is the way to go.
I currently run PhpBB for the ACE forums, which is quite heavily modded although most of which is now deactivated through the ACP.
If I use Fantistico to install SMF, would I still have to do the conversion myself or does fantastico actually do the conversion too?..I think I already know the answer to this question, but I'm just curious...lol

If the conversion still has to be done manually, is there anybody from simple machines that actually does this as a service? or anybody else for that matter?

Nice work ppl

[Grudge]

[ACE]$tealth,

You would have to do the conversion manually but it really is *very* easy. You simply upload the conversion script to the SMF directory, and run it from your browser. The only setting you'd need to put in to the script before hitting "go", is to tell it where you have installed phpBB to. Good helpfile is here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/readme_convert.html

[[ACE]$tealth]

Many thanks Grudge, I will try over this weekend.
I do have another specific question but I will search these boards for the answer before I ask.

Again, thank you for your help.

[Oldiesmann]

Before you convert, you will need to make sure that SMF's MySQL user has access to phpBB's database...
In Cpanel, click on "MySQL databases", then scroll down until you see "Add user to database". Select the MySQL user account that is being used for SMF from the first one and the phpBB database from the second one and click the appropriate button. After that it's pretty straight forward. You will also need to get the MySQL password from SMF's Settings.php since Fantastico generates a random one... From the File Manager, browse to the directory where you installed SMF, and click on "Settings.php". From the menu on the right, click "View File". Look for $db_passwd.

[[ACE]$tealth]

Nice 1 Oldiesmann...thank you!

[CP]

Quick and simple. No need to do anything! it installed in about 2 seconds!
http://cpfools.com/smf

[mpetrie]

In the SMF downloads there are seperate versions for YaBB upgrades and for new forums. Do the cPanel instals of SMF convert a YaBB board, or are they for fresh installs only? Any ideas?

[dtm.exe]

In the SMF downloads there are seperate versions for YaBB upgrades and for new forums. Do the cPanel instals of SMF convert a YaBB board, or are they for fresh installs only? Any ideas?

Fantastico will only install, not upgrade, I'm afraid.

-Dan The Man

[mpetrie]

Thanks! I've still to upgrade from the perl version of YaBB having just moved a site from a host that wanted an arm and a leg to add an SQL database. The new host has SMF 1.0.3 available.

Cheers - Mike

[dtm.exe]

Thanks! I've still to upgrade from the perl version of YaBB having just moved a site from a host that wanted an arm and a leg to add an SQL database. The new host has SMF 1.0.3 available.

Cheers - Mike

Glad to hear it .  It's about time, don't you think?  .

-Dan The Man

[mpetrie]

Just a little! I upgraded another site a few months ago. Next choice was whether to use something like Mambo and the simpleboard module but I couldn't get that to work and didn't know if I could convert to that from YaBB. Maybe I need to keep two seperate systems? Anyway, once I get YaBB upgraded I'll upload the SMF upgrade to that on both sites.

Mike

[Mark_Breznay]

Does anyone have the URL for Fantastico?
Mark

[dtm.exe]

Does anyone have the URL for Fantastico?
Mark

It should be in cPanel.

-Dan The Man

[Mark_Breznay]

It's not in mine, nor can I find it in Google.
Mark