Importing Grey Matter Files

  • jackiefg

    (@jackiefg)


    21 years ago

    I’m still dreaming, thinking that I can import my Grey Matter posts. Here’s the message I get when trying to import:
    The importer is running…
    importing users…
    Oops, can’t find any database named here !
    I don’t know what database it’s looking for.
    Right now my wordpress is in a subdirectory called https://www.jackiefg.com/blog. When I used Grey Matter my blog was in a subdirectory called https://www.jackiefg.com/journal and the posts were saved in the ‘journal/archives’. I had saved all my cgi files into my main cgi-bin.
    So am I using the wrong paths or something when trying to import? I have it like this:
    Path to GM files: /hsphere/home/jackiefg/jackiefg.com/cgi-bin <–my path
    Path to GM entries: /hsphere/home/jackiefg/jackiefg.com/journal/archives
    Last entry number: 0000403.cgi <– do I need the .cgi? I’ve tried it with and without
    What am I doing wrong, oh great gurus? Do I need to modify the file or anything?

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  • gfmorris

    (@gfmorris)

    The .cgi isn’t needed on the end of the entry #.
    Have you got WP up and running without GM–i.e., db’s created, etc.?
    Is the GM files path right?

    Thread Starter jackiefg

    (@jackiefg)

    My WordPress blog is up and running (sans old entries in Grey Matter). Database has been created and the GM path I put was my cgi-bin (which was where I had uploaded all my gm.cgi files and the other path I put in was where all the archives were saved.
    I’m presuming that they wanted the path (and not the url) that I had put above. And I tried with and without the .cgi extension and got the same message.
    What up with that?

    BytesU

    (@bytesu)

    I had the same GM importing problems as you and after a few days of trying different ideas I finally gave up ?? I would still love to convert to WordPress if the GM import script worked for me.

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