How to Migrate vBulletin to a New Server
- 1). Import the MySQL database file from the old vBulletin server to the MySQL installation on your new web server.
- 2). Download the complete library of vBulletin files from your old web server, then upload them to the new web server, ensuring that the directory structure is the same between both machines.
- 3). Open the config.php file in your vBulletin forum's home directory and ensure that the configuration file is saved with the database credentials used to access the new web server.
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