.xml file uploads incorrectly when going from wordpress.com to www.remarpro.com

  • Resolved Alex

    (@alexangstrom)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I recently moved my website from wordpress.com to www.remarpro.com, with hosting through Bluehost. The URL was angstromdesign.org and now it is angstromdesign.org (the same), but on www.remarpro.com. You get the idea.

    I exported my old site by downloading a .xml file. When I go to the new site and try to Import the site (via the .xml file), I don’t change authorship and I check the box to “Download and Include File Attachments.” Yet the next screen that appears has a list of maybe half the links from my old website (definitely not all of them) and for each one, it says “IMAGE.jpg already exists.” And when I go to the front-end of the site, it’s still blank. None of my content from the last 2 years has been transferred.

    Click here to see what I mean.

    Any idea how to get the upload and installation of the content on my new site going correctly? I don’t have any video files, only blog posts and images, so it shouldn’t be this hard. Also, the site just went live today (after I starting the process Thursday) so I don’t know if there is a waiting period before this will work.

    Hoping someone can help. The old site is inaccessible now, so I am not sure how to recover the files if they were somehow not exported correctly. I wish there was a support number I could call for WordPress to see what they can do for me from their end; Bluehost has been great at answering hosting questions but unfortunately WordPress has not been nearly as helpful. I appreciate any insights floating around the user-sphere out there!

    Thanks!!
    Alex

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  • Did you create the export file before or after you moved the domain name?

    Thread Starter Alex

    (@alexangstrom)

    Hi esmi, thanks so much for responding!

    I created the file before I moved the domain name. After I moved it, and it would not import, I had a grace period of like a day where I was able to try exporting it again and then import it. Neither file worked though.

    I created the file before I moved the domain name.

    OK – so let’s examine this a bit closer. You created an .xml export file from angstromdesign.org that included links to media on angstromdesign.org. Then you tried to import it into angstromdesign.org at another host. See where this is going?

    Your .xml file loops back on itself & thus fails.

    When you pointed angstromdesign.org to your new self-hosted site, your wordpress.com site will have reverted back to it’s original domain name – eg: <something>.wordpress.com. You need to log back into that site now and create a new export file.

    Thread Starter Alex

    (@alexangstrom)

    Thanks, got it! There were some other problems where the SQL file and XML files were in the wrong folders somehow, but some folks at Bluehost cleared it up for me ??

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