textpattern database import

My directories begin:

home/public_html/wp etc

Can anyone advise me on the exact address I need to enter for a location where I can ftp my textpattern database, where the txp import script will find it?

Thanks

step by step
https://alexbrie.net/1504/how-to-import-textpattern-into-wordpress/

script
public_html/wp-admin/import-textpattern.php if your wordpress install is in root.
i.e.
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/import-textpattern.php

though in later versions i think this is gone.

Did you try it from the wordpress admin – tools – import -text pattern

Thanks, yes.
When you say ‘script’, do you mean thats what I enter in the WP import interface where it says localhost by default?

And where do I ftp the database, so the script will find it?

((Those instructions are based on using phpMyAdmin to import the db, and I can’t do that.))

sorry – huge candy hangover
the script is not available in the later versions of wp

I think we are not communicating well.
Do you have WordPress installed?
If so, you should have created a databse to work with. Most hosts have phpmyadmin installed for that.

However, after installing WordPress, login and go to admin – click on tools – click on import – click on text pattern

You should be able to do this through wordpress’ admin interface

Yes I know all that. Please read what I said at the beginning:

1) I cannot import the textpattern database into localhost using phpMyAdmin

2) I need to change ‘localhost’ to another address where I will manually ftp the database

3) I need instructions on how to do that, ie. where to ftp the database and what the address is for that, to enter instead of ‘localhost’.

you can NOT ftp a database – why do you keep mentioning localhost?
you can import a database through phpmyadmin at your host or with an.xml or .wxr file – you can NOT ftp
Have you installed WordPress? If so, follow my import instructions above.

Because localhost is the default entry in the WP interface – I said that! And I CANNOT import the database using phpMyAdmin – there is some kind of time out error – I said that!

Of course I have installed WP, and of course (therefore) it is using a functioning WP database! Dude, please read what I have said

….or if you don’t understand, perhaps someone else can see what I am asking here (its all laid about above). Thanks.

Dude, please read what I have said

I have more than once and your impatience is wearing thin.
Have YOU read what I said?

However, after installing WordPress, login and go to admin – click on tools – click on import – click on text pattern

You should be able to do this through wordpress’ admin interface
if localhost isn’t the address – figure out what it is – no one can help you with that

I’m done.

No you haven’t, you kept talking rubbish, saying stupid stuff like ‘have I installed WP’ which is just irritating, I kept repeating what I said, and its not surprising I have no [moronic vulgarity moderated ] patience left with you. I knew the stuff you said and it was not the issue, OK? Done? Good!

Now, start again, anyone else: this is what I said, but here it is again and just ignore the above waste of time nonsense:

1) I cannot import the textpattern database into localhost using phpMyAdmin

2) I need to change the ‘localhost’ entry to another address where I will manually ftp the database

3) I need instructions on how to do that, ie. where to ftp the database and what the address is for that, to enter instead of ‘localhost’.

Keep it up and this topic will be closed

I’m keeping nothing up – I’m making an effort to restore this to what it originally was which is a simple and sincere request for help, which you derailed despite me repeating myself several times. At least have the humility to acknowledge what I said, and show me that respect: I KNEW THE STUFF YOU SAID AND IT WAS NOT THE ISSUE. I REPEATED THE ISSUE 3/4 TIMES BUT YOU INSIST I READ *YOU*!

What kinda place is this?!

The WP interface inserts ‘localhost’ as a default address for my textpattern database, and its not working for me because my host isn’t accepting a phpMyAdmin import.

Can anyone advise what address I should I use to run the WP import script, and where I should load it using my ftp client?

My directories begin:

home/public_html/wp etc

Thanks

I cannot import the textpattern database into localhost using phpMyAdmin

from the first post:

The WP interface inserts ‘localhost’ as a default address for my textpattern database, and its not working for me because my host isn’t accepting a phpMyAdmin import.

thats utter nonsense, and you dont understand what you are doing.

… need to change the ‘localhost’ entry to another address where I will manually ftp the database

Besides the fact that you dont know what you are doing, youre not writing coherently, and you are not reading.

you CANNOT ftp a database. You have already been told that.

…I need instructions on how to do that, ie. where to ftp the database and what the address is for that, to enter instead of ‘localhost’.

youre clueless, contact your host.

The WP interface inserts ‘localhost’ as a default address for my textpattern database, and its not working for me because my host isn’t accepting a phpMyAdmin import.

It is not nonsense at all, I don’t need (any more) abuse, and I never made any claim I am an expert on this – I am not. The interface inserts ‘localhost’ like my breath goes in and out: I suggest you check, see for yourself, and help if you can but if you can’t refrain from abuse.

Besides the fact I don’t know what I’m doing?

– what is this? a playground fight? I am not an expert and that is not a reason to attack me or indeed anyone else.

you CANNOT ftp a database. You have already been told that

Well if that’s the case, it would have helped if someone had explained that FIRST instead of bringing in irrelevant points and insisting I attend to them instead of the problem I presented.

If you cant figure out how to do what is a very simple task

You just said it can’t be done, and in any case why are you attacking me again like that as if this is playground fight, rather than offering to help??! What kinda place is this?

youre clueless

And you’re stupid and offensive.