Import Problem

Think I had an error with the username/password but am now getting timeout errors and nothing imports.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Which error message do you get?

Hi Kerfred, I get the following:

[ERROR] Couldn’t connect to the Drupal database. Please check your parameters. And be sure the WordPress server can access the Drupal database.

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection timed out

Thanks

Just wanted to check: should the URL of the live Drupal web site simply be the domain name i.e. https://www.domainname.no?

The URL field must contain the URL of the live Drupal site (i.e. https://www.domainname.no) It is used to import the images.

But this is not the cause of your problem.
If Drupal and WordPress are not installed on the same host, you can do this:
– export the Drupal database to a SQL file (with phpMyAdmin for example)
– import this SQL file on the same database as WordPress
– run the migration by using WordPress database credentials (host, user, password, database) instead of the Drupal ones in the plugin settings.

Ah ok thank you.

The websites are with different providers and are therefore on different hosts.

I will try what you have suggested later today.

I assume that I need to copy the exported SQL database onto the WordPress host before running the migration?

Yes.

One final question: where do I find the WordPress database credentials (host, user, password, database) – is it in the settings.php file for the WP site?

wp-config.php

Ok I have exported the sql database from Drupal and copied on the WP host. Should it go into a specific directory as I tried the root and it didn’t work? I get the following message:
“Couldn’t connect to the Drupal database. Please check your parameters. And be sure the WordPress server can access the Drupal database.”

I used the parameters (database, username, password, host) from the file wp-config.php

Checked the prefix and added, now get the message:
Warning: PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/2/w/waxingexpert/www/wp-content/plugins/fg-drupal-to-wp/admin/class-fg-drupal-to-wp-admin.php on line 494
{“status”:”Error”,”message”:”Connection failed
See the errors in the log below”}

Did you import the Drupal database on the WordPress database?

What did you enter in the database settings?

I exported the sql database on host 1 and copied onto the WP location on host 2. I then tried to run the import, as suggested, using the WP settings as follows:

url: test.mydomainname.no
username: mylogin
password: mypassword
host: mydomain.mysql.domenshop.no
prefix: ogz1s

Does this help?

If you have copied the Drupal database on host 2, then you must use the host 2 credentials to access the database.

If this still doesn’t work, please open a ticket on https://www.fredericgilles.net/support/ and we will investigate.