Need some help from you forum guru's! lol

[civic7]

How you doin guys, well heres my situation..

i set my forum up on freepowerboards.com , but I now have a server and phpbb installed under www.civicseven.com if anyone would be able to help me transfer (sort of speak) and help me design/ get up and running my forum the help would be appreciated. We can discuss some sort of payment or w/e for your help but the help is needed since im on a timeline here with short time.

thanks in advance people!

[Funk Theory]

Try this:

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=9

[civic7]

thanks great link! but none of that helped. im on freepowerboards.com which doesnt allow to do a full back up. Atleast to my knowledge. Like I said im pretty much to new to this and this is my first forum.

[infomatrix]

you have to contact the admin of your freeboardhost.com and ask him for a backup. ususally they don't give back up. so sad

[civic7]

lol thanks for harsh truth :-/ I guess im gonna have to figure this out and start from scratch

[Funk Theory]

lol thanks for harsh truth :-/ I guess im gonna have to figure this out and start from scratch

Ask them, you may get a backup for a small fee.

[zula]

well, domain costs about $6/year and hosting might cost you $100 year. its really not that much money to go through the hops of not being able to to with phpbb what you want and should do. i really don't like these free hosting companies nor you can have serious forum setup on those things. as a phpbb user i will give you advice. if you can't get to your data (mysql, etc...) then its not worth your time. i think many lads/ladies here will agree with me on this one.

[chris207]

Our backups don't actually work on regular phpbb anymore. As I'm sure you've noticed there are a lot of differences between default phpbb and the service we offer. They are also compressed to minimize file sizes.

Usually letting your forum members know you've moved via a mass mail or setting a board offline message does the trick to get moved somewhere else. Much like how you can't move a proboard (excuse my french ) forum to phpbb, you can't move a fpb forum to phpbb.