Hello everyone,
I wanted to migrate my PHPBB Forum to wpforo.
Everything worked fine, but after 16hours (like 80%) the progress disappeared and the site shows an 504 error.
I waited for 6 hours but it there was still no further progress. So I thought that I should delete all the imported forums and migrate them again. But when I want to delete a forum I also get the 504 error. I contacted my hoster but they said that this is a process in my wordpress installation causing this isseu.
Has anyone an idea?
Hi @tjonas331,
Everything worked fine, but after 16hours (like 80%) the progress disappeared and the site shows an 504 error.
If you don't touch anything you can just click on the address bar and just press "enter", it'll continue the migration.
There are many reasons for the issue.
1. This issue happens when the server is overloaded.
2. This may be the content issue
3. The database is huge, etc.
First of all, reduce the value of the "Items to import per cycle" option, set it e.g. set it 50 (screenshot below). If the process is somehow stopped, please click on the address bar and just press "enter", no need to do the migration again.
I suggest you do all migration on the local server then export the DB to live Database.
Here is instruction on how to install locally:
https://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/installing-wordpress-locally
We’re sorry but we cannot support issues arisen during your forum migration. We only support questions related to how to use and configure this tool in the wpForo support forum. We don’t support the result of migration. This kind of large work is out of our support. In case the migration result of this tool doesn’t satisfy you, you should contact professional forum migration services for custom migration. We only recommend gConverter or ProfProjects services for such projects. They have already done hundreds of forums to wpForo migration projects with the best result.
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@sofyThanks, I finally managed it on my own 😉