thinking of moving from joomla

[gn0stik]

I used SMF in the past with Joomla, and I have to say, I like the forum solution much better than what I am currently using which, is joomlaboard.

I'm thinking of moving from joomla/joomlaboard to SMF/TinyPortal.

Problem is, while I have Joomla installed, I cannot upload SMF to the root of my site in order to install it, since there is already a couple files named the same. So I have uploaded it to a /SMF directory. I have not installed yet.

Simplemachines has a simpleboard(joomlaboard) to SMF converter which I would run after the intall to move users, posts, attachments, etc over to SMF. Once I have that done, I can install the SMF bridge by joomlahacks.org to move the security info over, passwords and such.

At that point I can install TinyPortal, and whatever theme I want.

thing is, Will I have to point users to the domain.com/SMF? Or can I install TP in the root of my site somehow?

Shuffling the directories around seems to be the most difficult part of the conversion.

Any Ideas to help make it a smooth conversion would be helpful.

Much appreciate any input provided.

Regards,
Rich

[JPDeni]

TinyPortal will be in the same directory as SMF, because TP is an add-on module for SMF and cannot exist on its own.

You could install SMF in the subdirectory, then delete the files in the root and move SMF to where you really want it to be. Or you could set up a redirect so that when people went to the domain root, they would be transferred to the subdirectory.

[gn0stik]

I see, Thanks for the reply.

If I install SMF, and TP, then move them to the root, won't the paths be all messed up?

I would worry about that. I guess I could reinstall at the root once all the conversion is done.

Regards.

[JPDeni]

There's a file over at SMF called repair.php (I think). After you move your files and such, you upload that file and it goes in and fixes everything.