It depends on your provider. But generally they don’t allow the remote MySQL connections.
Another solution is to export the Joomla database to a SQL file with phpMyAdmin and import it on the same server as WordPress.
So, they’re both on the same server already. Imported the Joomla DB into the new WP installation’s DB. Not sure where to go from here. Haven’t been able to get it to work with the plugin so far.
WordPress info:
Plugin URL: https://wvwaterfalls.com/newwp/wp-admin/admin.php?import=fgj2wp
Site URL: https://wvwaterfalls.com/newwp
Home URL: https://wvwaterfalls.com/newwp
WP version: 5.4
WP Memory limit: 40M
Multisite: no
Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Media in year/month folders: yes
Active theme: Twenty Twenty 1.2
Active plugins:
Classic Editor 1.5
FG Joomla to WordPress 3.65.1
Jetpack by WordPress.com 8.0
PHP info:
PHP version: 7.3.11
Web server info: Apache
memory_limit: 512M
max_execution_time: 7200
max_input_time: 60
post_max_size: 128M
upload_max_filesize: 128M
allow_url_fopen: 1
PDO: mysql, pgsql, sqlite
MySQL info:
MySQL version: 5.5.5
max_allowed_packet: 268435456
Plugin info:
FG Joomla to WordPress 3.65.1
Add-ons:
Options:
automatic_empty: 1
url: http://www.wvwaterfalls.com/
hostname: localhost
port: 3306
database: ohiova7_wp174
username: ohiova7_wp174
password: ***
prefix: jos_4rwhrm_
introtext: in_content
archived_posts: not_imported
skip_media:
featured_image:
only_featured_image:
remove_first_image:
remove_accents:
import_external: 1
import_duplicates:
force_media_import:
meta_keywords_in_tags: 1
import_as_pages: 1
timeout: 15
logger_autorefresh: 1
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Please contact us via https://www.fredericgilles.net/support/ and provide the WordPress access. We’ll try to see what’s wrong on your installation.
