Problems importing Blogger into WordPress 2.0.1

I had no problems with the importing but it did make some mistakes.

How do I clear my databases?

This is the error I get when I try to import from blogger:

404 Not Found
The requested URL /wp-admin/login.do does not exist.

Has anyone had any problems with their old Blogger posts showing up in the archives?

When I click on any past month containing imported Blogger posts, it takes me to an unformatted page containing just a directory listing of the old blogger posts. I thought that if I clicked on any archive link, it would take me to a page containing all the selected archived posts for that month, with the current theme/stylesheet settings applied. But nothing.

Any thoughts?

I get Walnut’s error as well, after the app imported about half my blogger entries and then fizzled, also mangling the blogger template and entries in the process. Anyone? I’m not supersmart about this stuff, just want to copy my blog!

“404 Not Found
The requested URL /wp-admin/login.do does not exist.”

Argh!

Same problem in that I can’t import from Blogger but for a different reason,

Here’s what the error says:

“Failed to connect to 66.102.15.100: Permission denied”

I have enabled curl, etc. but no luck. Any ideas?

I can’t import from Blogger too. Same message. But it worked well the other night. No problems.

Maybe it’s a problem with connecting with Blogger.

Why is nobody answering our problems? I’m having a problem where when it goes ‘100% Moving on…’ in IE it just freezes and I eventually get a 404. In Firefox it asks me to save an admin.php file to my desktop then does nothing.

It just stops after about 5 posts or something. Is there ANYONE who knows who to fix this or get around it. I have a good few hundred posts to import.

I’d guess that some of the above describe issues are server issues and not WordPress itself. Perhaps upload a fresh set of files and see if that helps, you may want to re-download the files to be sure the ones you currently have a not corrupted.

Like I said, I think some of these things, especially as described by Goatie are server related, possibly some wrong/messed-up MIME-types, timeouts and things like that. If you haven’t, you should check with your host, mention the issues and see if there is something wrong on there end – though they will likely blame WordPress, as seems to be customary with some hosts.

If after refreshing the files and what-not it is still giving you grief, perhaps post back with more details (PHP version etc). I certainly understand how frustrating all of this is, hopefully someone can figure this out or at least point you in the right direction. ??

Good luck,
Michael.

Exact same issues here – I can NOT get more then two or three posts at a time to import from my Blogger account.

I’ve tried Firefox (my usual browser) and even (gack) tried IE to see if it was a compatibility issue.

Same result with both – 2 or three posts import, and then it just seems to either error out, or simply stop. If I reset, it takes me back to the start…and manages to import another 2-3 posts…and freezes again.

Is there ANY other way to accomplish this task? This will take me days at this rate!

Sorry to dredge this up again, but is NOBODY else still having this issue? I’ve been trying rather fruitlessly for 2 days now to import my blogger.com account.

I even resorted to a completely fresh WP install tonight, with a new SQL Database, and it still wont import beyind my first 20 or 30 posts…and even those took about 15 attempts to import that far.

It seems, based on my observations, to simply be a “timeout” issue in the import script – I think that the script isn’t getting information quickly enough from either blogspot, or perhaps my own domain, and is simply timing out.

Is there something in the import script that I can change to increase the length of time before the script times out? I strongly suspect that with a little tweak in this regards, the import would go flawlessly…?

Help!

All my problems went away when I imported my blogger blog to a server running locally on my PC. I used easyphp from https://www.easyphp.org/ that is easy to install and only required minimal changes through their GUI. I had to enable curl in PHP and mod_rewrite in Apache (for permalinks).

I have not yet exported this DB into my official blog, so I cannot comment how easy that is, but there are instructions given in the DOCS section of this site on how to do that. I think it is something like export the DB, search and replace the old URL (127.0.0.1) with the new URL (yourdomain.com) in the export file (it is text) and then import it to the new location.

I have also used this server to run my plugin to import any blogger hosted images from blogger to my server https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/BloggerImageImport.

I have been to busy recently to switch my blog over. I need to understand how to create new posts with images in the correct format (with the correct thumbnail sizes) before I make the move permanently.

Hi all. I built the present importer and I’ll do what I can to help. For starters, I just this minute tested it on my own server: Ubuntu Linux, Apache 2, MySQL 4, PHP 4, no problems.

From reading your many bug reports above, it appears that the cause of the problem is in the responses your servers are getting from the Blogger servers. This is a very delicate relationship and any variance will break the process. What’s worse, I can’t get Blogger to replicate the problem for me.

All I can do is conclude that Blogger’s service level has caused the issue, or your hosting situation is somehow preventing the importer from doing its work. I’d actually lean toward the latter because my tests have never failed in the ways you are experiencing. Poco’s success favors that conclusion as well.

If someone would like me to troubleshoot their issue by allowing me to log into your server, I may be contacted by email. The host is gmail.com and the username is skeltoac. I will need SSH access.

Like Poco, I was also able to successfully run the import direct from the WordPress page when I ran wordpress on my local server. Funny he should post that result, as I ended up doing exactly the same thing as he did the evening after I posted my last response, and success.

However, from my “real” wordpress installation (Running the exact same version of WP), the import procedure would fail every time.

On my local installation, it worked perfectly.

So, I took the successfully imported entries from my local installation, and applied them to my “real” live installation..and problem solved.

There is definately something strange going on with the importer though..I’m not sure if it was intollerance on behalf of my web host as to the time it was taking the blogspot.com site to respond, or what the overall issue was, but over several days of trying fruitlessly, it just wouldn’t go.

Just ditto and bump here.

I tried the EasyPHP route but, being a novice at this, when I placed the database into my WordPress files, it overwrote everything and kept “looking” to my computer for all the files.

I’m stumped — I hope the importer gets updgraded for wee morons like me!

Take a look at sueeus’s tutorial about using EasyPHP.

https://sueeeus.holyshiznit.com/index.php/2006/03/26/mercy-me-migration-isnt-much-fun/

Before you copy your DB to your new server you need to search and replace the old domain with the new domain (as described in the document about moving your server https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server)