trying to migrate from WordPress.com to www.remarpro.com supported blog

  • hi all,

    i am obviously a noob. i began with a free WordPress.com hosted blog, then quickly decided to switch to www.remarpro.com platform. here is my site https://hydrophytesblog.com

    i found directions for moving content between the two servers and was able to download the xml file to my machine. however, when i selected the file at “Import” from hydrophytesblog admin i got this error message:

    Sorry, there has been an error.

    Unable to create directory /home/hidrofit/public_html/user/wp-content/uploads/2009/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    what do i do now?

    thanks and regards,

    hydrophyte

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  • Hi

    Try logging into your webhosting control panel. Get into the file manager. find the folder /public_html/user/wp-content/uploads/ in the file manager

    you want to change the permissions on it. there will be an option to do that. Write down what they are now. Then change them to 777, save, and try your Import again. Often this resolves the problem. You do need to go back to the control panel after you complete, whether or not it worked, and reset the permissions back to what they were before. 777 means anyone can write, delete, edit any files in those folders, so you don’t want to leave them set that way.

    Thread Starter hydrophyte

    (@hydrophyte)

    thank you. i will try that and report back.

    Thread Starter hydrophyte

    (@hydrophyte)

    that file path didn’t produce anything. i found a php file “upload” in another spot. this is the closest thing that i could find to what you describe:

    if (!current_user_can(‘upload_files’))
    wp_die(__(‘You do not have permission to upload files.’));

    is this the right piece of code? what do i do with it?

    Thread Starter hydrophyte

    (@hydrophyte)

    i have a second dumb question. will this procedure also move my image files, or will i have to go back and get those? maybe they will stay with the original server(?).

    Hi

    /public_html is the root folder in a Cpanel webserver.

    You message was
    Unable to create directory /home/hidrofit/public_html/user/wp-content/uploads/2009/04.

    /user would be a folder under public_html
    /wp-content is one of the standard wordpress folders. /uploads is the folder where uploads go. If you see the folder /wp-content and you don’t see the folder uploads in it, then you must change the permissions on wp-content as it is /uploads that could not be created. If /uploads exists (it is a folder, not a file) then its that folder that needs the permissions changes.

    You are not going to OPEN a file – you are going to HIGHLIGHT a folder. when you have the folder highlighted, look for a button or option to Change Permissions. Then do what I described in the earlier email.

    This procedure has nothing to do with moving your image files. All you are doing is making the changes necessary so WordPress can create the folders it wants to create that you will later by uploading images into, if you choose to do so.

    Thread Starter hydrophyte

    (@hydrophyte)

    thanks again. i will try that tomorrow morning. it’s bedtime now.

    Thread Starter hydrophyte

    (@hydrophyte)

    i fixed it. here it is updated with the old content https://hydrophytesblog.com/user/. now i just have to start working on style.

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