Johnb81

Yes it should be that simple and it should work for you. If you want give me access and I’ll have a look at it. Off hand unfortunately cannot say what the problem is.

Do not post any details here. If you want, drop me an email on [email address removed]

John

grrrr… unfortunately cannot edit forum posts after some time…

@marc_chan

Instead of giving write privileges to the whole root WordPress directory, I would recommend you to create sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz, upload them, change their privileges only and then run the plugin as explained in the security tip section in this Google XML sitemap plugin review.

John

What do you mean copied your MySQL files? You manually moved the database files or you made a backup and restore?

The error you are getting says that the table wp_posts in the database adventuresofscatman_com_3 does not exist.

Is this the correct database name?

P.s. for security reasons I wouldn’t mention any database names here. Drop me an email on [email address removed] and we will try to sort it out. Let me know what you are using to connect to MySQL, if phpMyAdmin or so.

John

@scatmanat,

P.s. I’ve seen such issue before. In this case you should also check the comments and all the content you’ve or the public generated.

Most probably this issue happened because of the encoding used by the backup or restore tool you used.

John Bonello

@scatmanat,

The SQL code looks legit. Though backup the website before running the query, just to be on the safe side.

@jbaileyla,

Try to make an entry in the Windows Host file to point to your old blog.

1. Navigate to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
2. Open the file hosts with notepad or any other text editor
3. At the end of file add the following:

74.200.243.251 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com
74.200.244.59 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com
76.74.254.120 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com
76.74.254.123 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com
72.233.2.58 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com
72.233.69.6 https://www.jakebaileydotcom.wordpress.com

Login to WordPress.com, get all the content, and once done remove the entries from the Hosts file. Each time you make changes to the Windows Hosts file, make sure you restart the browser.

John Bonello
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@jhonthore

Are you getting any errors or so when trying to upgrade? What is the issue? Drop me an email on [Email removed] with the details and I’ll assist you upgrading. We will sort it out ??

Regards,
John Bonello
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Hi lizvoss,

Typically this happens because something is crashing, something similar to the blue screen of death in Windows.

Is it a fresh install or you tried to activate a plugin or so?