Import to .org from .com fai;ing utterly

Ah. Wait. A very very small file does work – gives me import options. Today works. All of this year does not work. Longer also does not work.

So perhaps there is something wrong in a post this year. Help. What can I do? This is absolutely mission critical, so any help appreciated.

Nope, even the small import fails, but now upon trying to import an image, the first image it comes across.

I am doing it per month. Mostl;y they fail. I get hangs, and images will not import mostly, and I get things like:

Importing attachment https://mvwphoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/5p6.jpg…
Warning: curl_init(): Cannot initialize a new cURL handle in /homepages/6/d279305402/htdocs/sites-mine/speedlighter.ca/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1307

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/6/d279305402/htdocs/sites-mine/speedlighter.ca/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1343

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/6/d279305402/htdocs/sites-mine/speedlighter.ca/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1344

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/6/d279305402/htdocs/sites-mine/speedlighter.ca/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1346

Rubbish…

Thanks to a German blogger – no-one here knew??

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Here is how to solve the issue:

You have to add two lines of code to your .htaccess file to force the use of PHP5

1. Locate your .htaccess file in your WordPress installation root folder (most FTP tools don’t show the file so you’ll need SSH/command line access or open 1&1’s “WebspaceExplorer”)

2. Download the file.

3. Edit with any editor (I use Coda) and add the following two lines at the top:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

4. Save it and upload the file to your web space again.

5. Make sure the file name is actually .htaccess (no file ending and starting with .)

6. You are done and everything works as it should now.

It is still not perfect: it still hangs on import, but now only after every hundred or so items so it’s doable. Media are still not importable (too many hangups, also out-of-memory errors), so they will have to stay on wordpress.com. Other than that, https://www.speedlighter,ca is now up

Oops, I meant https://www.speedlighter.ca – dot, instead of comma.

Thanks to a German blogger – no-one here knew??

most hosts use php 5.xx.x now – so…

also, you might try a memory bump

1. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');

2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 128M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

3. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 128M

Samuel,

1and1 is a very big, popular hosting service. Saying “Most hosts do this or that” is like a telephone support person saying “it works for me”: not helpful. May I suggest WP add that directive, for those hosting services that have not switched to PHP5?

I’ll definitely try to up the memory, thanks. Though that third strIng crashed the entire site (even when I made it 32M). Ouch!

Michael

Oh, 1and1 seems to be, and certainly bills itself as, “the world’s largest web hosting provider”. So being complacent is not sensible here, I would have thought. How many people failed to find the solution? It took me all day!

and1 is a very big, popular hosting service. Saying “Most hosts do this or that” is like a telephone support person saying “it works for me”: not helpful.

maybe you should ask them – if they are so big and great – why folks have to add directives to their .htaccess to get php5. You would think it would be default since so much software requires it

Hey Michael – nice site and thanks for solving the porblem _ I am on 1and1 as well, sometimes I do wonder about them – I dont think they are as wordpress friendly as they could be.

About your note on checklists – from one aviator to another!
Our pre mission list was –
“Watches, wallet, spectacles and testicles!”

Thanks Samuel your note helped too!