EXPORT FROM WORDPRESS.COM to hosted site

  • Hi-
    When I am exporting, am I only exporting comments?
    Do I need to be designing the site all over again on my new server or do the html and xhtmlfiles that design and set up the site also export?

    regardless I can’t even get the wordpress.com exported file imported to my hosted site-

    I have read several threads about this and am having trouble – I downloaded the plug in from the sailor and installed the wordpress.php file into the import file on my server- and tried to use the import feature to import the file created when exporting from my wordpress.com site. Permissions are all set to 755 but I get this error
    Unable to create “directory /home/sevenvil/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
    sigh

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  • What version of WP are we using? If WP 2.1.x, you don’t need the technosailer plugin — the ability to import the WXR format (from wordpress.COM) is built-in.

    Does /home/sevenvil/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04 exist? If not, why not create it and then try the import?

    Thread Starter jjoakim

    (@jjoakim)

    Hi-
    I upgraded the wp to the most recent – 2.1 –
    I tried creating the directory, the series of directories listed in the path and I am still getting this error.

    Anyone have any suggestions?

    Thread Starter jjoakim

    (@jjoakim)

    btw the file error ends in 04. with the dot –

    Thread Starter jjoakim

    (@jjoakim)

    This is the latest error message:

    The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-content/uploads/2007/04.
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1221

    From my earlier response:

    Does /home/sevenvil/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04 exist? If not, why not create it and then try the import?

    Thread Starter jjoakim

    (@jjoakim)

    yes – I created a directory by that name, then got this message:
    I am stuck here-
    to /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-content/uploads/2007/04.
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/sevenvil/public_html/sevenvil/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1221

    So your next step would be to confirm that the permissions of that folder are such that your web server process can write to it.

    Thread Starter jjoakim

    (@jjoakim)

    done-
    the latest message isn’t regarding permissions, this error message is specific to a functions.php file

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