Reinstall forum with old database?
 

Ok, I have decided to remove vbulletin from one of my sites and install a fresh copy on another domain on the same host, but I would like to use my old vbulletin forums databsse which has about 300+ users on it.

I'm not to sure on how this works, first of all, how do I do it.

Second of all, how do I do it so it only adds the users and not the posts?

:Posted in wrong forum, please move to correct forum thanks.

- Export the table "Users" of your old vBulletin database.
- Install your new vB forum, fresh database.
- Go to your new forum's database and DROP the table users
- Import the table Users that you exported from your old database.

this should work.

good luck !

That will NOT work.

Ah ok, thanks for confirming that, I wasn't sure about it tho..


Then, the other solution im thinking about is:

- Create a new dabatase
- Import the whole "old" database into the new one.
- Download your vB files and edit the config to match with the new database info. ( the forum should start working with no need of a new installation )
- Delete all posts, remove all plugins.

and done, you have a forum with all the users and no products..

See Moving Servers

Ypu will need to remove all unwanted threads etc afterwards. You can not only transfer the users.