Moving from wp.com to self hosted errors?

Can you tell us the filesize of your xml file?

1.2 MB

can you re export your posts from wordpress.com to see if the file is the same filesize?

Just posts, all dates is 1.1MB

All content export is 1.2MB

I found this question of someone struggling with what appears to be your problem also.

This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.

It’s worth it to contact your webhost I think. Your question should be: I’m having troube importing my WordPress XML archive. Could there be a server setting/configuration that is preventing me from importing this file? (php.ini?)

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/172921/wordpress-import-error

I will look into it, thanks very much. I will post the results here.

Good luck!

I guess another option is to migrate via ftp, I would just be nervous about all the paths? The image attachments, etc?

Any thoughts?

Henry

Oh, I guess it is not an option becasue I cannot access the wordpress.com files via ftp?

That is correct. Did you hear back from your host?

Yes, but at first they guided me towards an ftp migration article, I am contacting them again about the specifics of the php.ini file. I have direct read and write access to that file right on the server. I just adjusted it last week to allow for large uploads on other sites at my server to 99MB, which is the limit.

It is certainly not an issue with size, but perhaps some other aspect of the php.ini?

This is what the page reads in Chrome after it times out:

No data received

ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
Reload this webpage
Press the reload button to resubmit the data needed to load the page.

Are you using chrome? In that case try another browser, just to make sure it’s not browser related.

It’s worth checking the server error_log for this error, to find out more details.

I will try another browser. I have had four cahts with my server (Media Temple) they are great, but everything is good in the php.ini and the issues seems to be with the plugin? I am confused that the tutorial does not mention the WP Import Plugin?, yet that is the way to are forced to go, right?

I can see that the xml file uploads, I see the % go to 100, it is the next window where you assign a user to the incoming data that seems to just leave me blank?

Again, no mention of this in the WP Tutorial? I have tried all three options.

Create new user
Use existing incoming user
Use existing User on new site

I would so like this to work. I happen to like this blog a lot and there are more posts there then any other blog I have and it would be great to move it to a self hosted environment so I can be more in control of audio and video uploads.

I guess my lsat resort will be the $129 guided transfer, but I sure hate to spend that money.

Henry