Can I transfer from hosted WordPress to wordpress.com

merrickmgt · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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Hello,
I have my blog hosted on my site and woud like to know if it is possible to migrate it to wordpress.com. Thanks!
drmike · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 4:17 pm
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Yup but specific instructions depends on what version of wordpress you’re running currently.
merrickmgt · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 6:13 pm
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Hi drmike,

I am using 2.0. I tried updating to 2.1.3, but my host is running lower versions of MySQL and PHP.

Thanks,
Taryn
drmike · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 6:41 pm
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You’re going to have to install this plugin since it’s the 2.0 version that you’re running. Once you have it installed, go Dashboard -> Manage -> Export on your old blog to export out the data and save it to your desktop. The *.xml file you get is what you import here at wp.com at Dashbaord -> Manage -> Import.

Hope this helps,
-drmike
merrickmgt · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 6:48 pm
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Awesome, just what I was looking for! Thanks :-)
drmike · Member · Apr 27, 2007 at 7:03 pm
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Not a problem. :)

It used to be a FAQ but I see it’s been removed. :(
merrickmgt · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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Hi drmike,
I tried this and it tells me my backup directory is not writeable!

It says:
WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/home/virtual/site216/fst/var/www/html/blog/

Not sure what to do….
drmike · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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Make /blog/ (and go ahead and make /wp-content/)writable. Set the permissions to ‘777’.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
merrickmgt · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 11:33 pm
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Hi,

I did that and was able to proceed and click the “backup” button, but then it said my permission was denied:
You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/edit.php on this server.

Why is this so difficult :-(
merrickmgt · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 11:35 pm
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It says “cannot open the back up file for writing”…

Thanks for your help :-)
merrickmgt · Member · May 1, 2007 at 7:06 pm
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I also gave up on this and started a new wordpress.com blog :-) It was just less stressful!

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