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HELP ME WITH FTP PLEASE

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Umm I bought a domain for my forum but to transfer domains I need the FTP username and password of my forum.

I've tried every little option and I don't know what to do!!! HELP ME

And no I cannot ask my current host for my FTP username and password. The support forum's been down for months...

I dunno if this will help but my forum's URL is http://sethforum.atfreeforum.com/forum.html

Thank you in advance!
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unfortunetly you can't do that. freeforums does not have FTP or database support. FTP comes only with site hosting, not freeforum hosting.
there's some sites that archive internet stuff (sites, forums ..etc) one of them is http://www.archive.org
i already tried your forum and it has nothing on it. i do not know any tools for that, but in theory it is possible to make copy of posts and usernames (not users).
maybe some site downloader could do that or offline surfer. you must google for such things. and i don't mean just google for "offline surfer", but combine the words and think what it could be called. offline surfer, offline browser, download website..etc. theres tons of them, but im not sure which one would work best.
once you have all the posts, you can convert them into your new hosting's database (which is not going to be easy)

however, you can check in your forum's admin area, maybe this freeforum has database support. if it does, then download database (full backup), download phpbb3 forum from http://www.phpbb.com/, then upload it to your new hosting and restore database there.

but what you are asking is impossible with freeforums, because freeforum hostings does not have FTP access for forum hosters (maybe some rare hostings does, but i doubt). it is not important anyway, because database is where your posts and data is held, not FTP. server just holds phpbb forum system and nothing more.

also you said you bought domain name, did you bought just domain name or you bought domain name + space ? because domain name only gives you .. well domain name, but no space for your files. you need to buy hosting space seperatly usually (or in one package).
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Re: HELP ME WITH FTP PLEASE

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you can find an old laptop or desktop and use Filezilla to make the lappy/desk an ftp server ;p
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TR what are you talking about ? what possible use he would have of that ? he wants to transfer his forum not host a FTP. his problem is that freeforums does not have FTP. he wants to download his whole forum and upload it into new hosting doh.
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Yeah I bought the domain and the space. So yeah I have the site (empty site XD) and the domain.

The new site is at http://sethforum.com
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as i can see you managed to upload forum system already ?!
however i don't know exactly how you could transfer posts. as i said you can try to download all visible stuff and then transfer them into database.
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Well yeah I uploaded PhpBB with the help of my friend but he just uploaded the forum system not the topics and everything...

Oh well I guess I'll just start over...
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only thing that you can salvage from freeforums is only visual (posts, usernames, counters..etc) and even then you need lot of work, but somehow im thinking there are tools for it.
as i said, it is possible to convert visual stuff, depends how much you need it.
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