I am trying to use the import tool in bbpress to transfer all the posts and users from my vbulletin forum to my new bbpress forum. The vbulletin forum was set-up and hosted by a web company. I emailed them and asked for the required set-up information and they responded with the following:

Database Server: niagara.localsportsreport.com
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: lsr_niaglsr
Database User: lsr_niaglsr_ro
Database Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (password blocked out for privacy)
Table Prefix: forum_

However, when I enter this information into the database settings page on the import page and press start, it comes back with the following:

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
Starting Conversion

Any suggestions on what could be wrong?

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 5 months ago]

You cannot import from a remote database. You should download the database and upload it to the same database server you are using for WordPress.

[@localsports Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

Now I understand. That makes sense. Thanks.

Kevin

[@localsports Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

I downloaded the database to my server as you suggested and I am happy to say that everything worked well.

Now that the data has been imported, can I delete the database that I created to hold the data from my old forum?

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 5 months ago]

Awesome, glad you got it done 🙂

I don’t delete any databases until I have a backup, if you have a backup and are 100% confident you have a backup of the correct database and that database is no longer connected to a forum install (and you have backups of that also) then delete away, you can’t get it back once you delete it 😉

[@webp Participant 8 years, 11 months ago]

FYI: In contrary to above, bbPress can import from remote database. But must use Hostname:Port in the converter admin, instead of hostname and port in separate input form fields.

I’m able to use a remote MySql server as import source.
Details please see a minor bug or enhancement that I just created:
BBpress import from remote database hostname:port config