jasey12345

Great Daryl thanks. Mail sent!

Would it help if I added a user account for you on my site so that you can use my account for testing as you go?

thanks dllh – i checked and curl is definitely running; see:

array(9) {
[“version_number”]=>
int(462597)
[“age”]=>
int(2)
[“features”]=>
int(1597)
[“ssl_version_number”]=>
int(0)
[“version”]=>
string(6) “7.15.5”
[“host”]=>
string(23) “x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu”
[“ssl_version”]=>
string(15) ” OpenSSL/0.9.8b”
[“libz_version”]=>
string(5) “1.2.3”
[“protocols”]=>
array(9) {
[0]=>
string(4) “tftp”
[1]=>
string(3) “ftp”
[2]=>
string(6) “telnet”
[3]=>
string(4) “dict”
[4]=>
string(4) “ldap”
[5]=>
string(4) “http”
[6]=>
string(4) “file”
[7]=>
string(5) “https”
[8]=>
string(4) “ftps”
}
}

what would you suggest i do from here?

all attachments are failing, with the error:

Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0

here are a few lines for you to see what’s coming back in the plugin window:

Checking ‘Julius on the farm’ for images…1 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonelk/bz3YRDadm6sTOc2fNmZhGkmLGhOrCyFrTqv9Bf12paiyxttrf6pBST2OMWA1/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0
Checking ‘When did a postbox become a ‘posting box’ in SA?’ for images…1 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonelk/Fe2iEYXDhEentmgN1lOoOV2O4a6fScbP1jl6mfRIKUO0lfhouDHUjN3KSkPs/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0
Checking ‘All aboard!’ for images…1 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonelk/t3jmS6P24WaLAlUbMWi8O432BBQEfFurCl8BFAQ9mYjy1m9reJ2mcOqQZdBq/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0
Checking ‘On a boat going around Intaka Island. Five minutes from work. Destress!’ for images…1 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonelk/pgiLqUNALgHnv07T3rMrXstzPL42bxSUUpjpseaK7f1aZ0lsB7RkEyyrpMjb/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0
Checking ‘New Sally Williams chocolate slab – this cannot be good!’ for images…1 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonelk/evUEsF4N4uakAbHfUTSJCwdzc82u0nJ1igAvXu80RTqVlfV8oz2F3Bsxz8oS/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0
Checking ‘A couple of macro shots: a bee stopping for a drink’ for images…2 images found
Importing attachment https://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-11-13/DcdfuCiitbiakEduHcmnyDIxpwjkhxjotfxHFdozGACwFetwElbsotgzEnjF/beefirst.jpg.scaled1000.jpg…Remote file error: Remote file returned error response 0

have a look at the posts on jasonelk.com. please let me know once you’re done, because i’m going to have to reactive the .htaccess file to point at jasonelk.posterous.com after that, until this is finally resolved.

thanks!

thanks for the heads up dllh. at least this plugin actually imports all the posts, and very quickly too. BUT BUT BUT it fails and returns errors when it gets to the attachment importing stage, and you can see that posterous is returning an error to the plugin’s requests to import the attachments, which means that all the photos are still sitting on posterous, which is useless.

wordpress, what do we do now?

I’ve now upped the memory limit to 256MB in both php.ini and wp-config.php and Worpdress still stops importing around the point of 116 media items. These media items are seen under the media tab, but unattached to anything, and zero posts are imported. Does it really have to be THIS hard?

Even worse, WordPress doesn’t import videos from Posterous and instead displays a link saying ‘watch this on Posterous’. Man, what a really crap experience this is.

Navjot, the size of the photos and videos attached to the posts is quite sizeable. And unfortunately I don’t see an error messages reported – so the timeout is not a confirmed timeout but just eventually nothing more happens and the screen says ‘done’ in the browser bar. Then I check … and sometimes it manages a few posts, other times not. The WordPress.com Posterous Importer worked perfectly however.

Navjot, I’ve tried that. The Posterous Importer on WordPress.com works fantastically, but then trying to run the WordPress Importer on my standalone blog to import from wordpress.com keeps timing out because I have 245 posts each with at least one photo attachment. If I could just run the same Posterous Importer that runs on WordPress.com on my standalone site (i.e. if the plugin was FIXED by WordPress) then all would be resolved once and for all. At this rate I’m losing traffic and search engine credibility. It really is a shocking situation.

please wordpress, honestly, this is embarrassing that this crucial plugin does not work :(((

This just doesn’t do anything on my side ??

Ah ok. But I’m not sure it’s even started yet because the daisy wheel showed up before I even entered the password. Will my password be saved from the previous attempt to use the (broken) Posterous Importer? There’s no status showing so I’m not sure if it’s actually going.

It doesn’t seem to be doing anything Nicolas. I just see a daisy wheel next to the ‘submit’ button but when I enter my password, nothing happens – except the daisy wheel keeps animating.

LIFE SAVER, thank you Nicolas. Trying it now …

PLEASE post it here, or post the instructions on how to add the sleep commands in manually here, or something … this is driving me absolutley round the freaking bend!