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1. keziahhill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, I've just upgraded to 2.2 everything working well but I can't import my blog from New Blogger. After I follow all the instructions and go to the Google page and hit the grant access button, I get a message that says:

   Could not connect to https://www.google.com

   There was a problem opening a secure connection to Google. This is what went wrong:

   Connection timed out (110)

   I've done this a few times over yesterday and today and still get the same message. Am I doing something wrong?
   Thanks
   Keziah

2. keziahhill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Anyone got an answer to this problem?

3. mollycrabapple
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Wish I had an answer! I'm getting this too!

4. keziahhill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   When I go into my Google account it looks as though I have granted authorisation to import from New Blogger but I'm not being taken back to the Wordpress site to continue the process.

   Any clues?

5. megamark
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've tried re-installing Wordpress, deleting old permissions in my Google account, closing and opening the fopen function, but nothing works. SOMEONE HELP US.

6. avcascade
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This doesn't sound like a WordPress error, so reinstalling WP isn't going to help. Which browser are you using? Which OS? Are you sure javascript and cookies are enabled?

7. avcascade
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   also, as drmike suggests - check with your host to see if they have SSL support compiled into their install of PHP. You'll probably run into trouble if WordPress cannot establish a secure connection.

8. ebf1978
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I was having our same problem until our network administrator fixed the SSL support that avcascade mentioned. It now works and I'm on to the next problem. The import now starts but only imports a fraction of the posts that are on blogger. If anyone knows how to get around this issue, please let me know! thanks

9. avcascade
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Do you have anything in your posts which might possibly break the import? (For example, a post references a resource somewhere else on the web that now requires authentication).

10. keziahhill
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    This is what my host said. Completely incomprehensible to me.
    ~~~~
    Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately, we are not able to assist you with the transfer of a Blogger blog to Wordpress. Please follow the URL below for specific information on what features/functions are enabled on the server:

    http://ftphelp.secureserver.net/linux-phpinfo.html

    You can also make modification to the PHP configuration through the use of the php.ini file.

    Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.
    ~~~~
    I went to the web site and couldn't make any sense of it. I think the documentation with this version of Wordpress needs to make it clear you can only transfer Blogger across if you have a host that will let you do it. Other wise it's beyond the non expert.

11. Poco
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Well, there is always the old tried and true way of doing imports on hosts that don't always work. Import the posts to a Wordpress server running on your PC and then copy the database to your public server.

    I wrote about how I did it with the old Blogger, but the same steps basically apply (though the actual import step may be different).

    http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/from-blogger-to-wordpress/

12. drmike
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    keziahhill, I don't see SSl support in there right off.

    Gotta admit though that I'd be more upset at your host instead of complaining about wordpress docs. It's a standard setting that I believe is installed by default in PHP. If it's not in there, your host had to actually go in and remove it. I'd be more upset at them.

    Feel free to your http://daria.be if you want as a temporary workaround. You should be able to import it there and then export out a wordpress *.xml file for your install elsewhere.

13. wyliemac
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I e-mailed this thread to my host, An Hosting, and they recompiled php with openssl support. I woke up in the morning and began importing my old blogger posts. The trouble now is that the connection seems to time out every second or two, or else it's just not connecting. I hit the magic button to import, then I get the "continue" button.

14. Otto42
    Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Here's the short of it:

    Wordpress Imports (any/all of them) are just not going to work on some hosting services. Period. My advice would be to try another hosting service in that case.

    There's a lot of possible reasons for it not working, and not all of them are fixable. The Wordpress software supports normal configurations, but many hosting services, in the name of "security", block certain types of things that interfere with Wordpress.

    We can't fix this.
    We can't even tell you what needs to be fixed, with any kind of reliability.
    And it would work if your hosting service did not suck.

    Not the answer you wanted, I know. But it's all we got.

    Another option: Create a free blog on wordpress.com, import your posts and such to there, and then export those posts from there. This will save them as an extended Wordpress format, which you can then import to almost any Wordpress blog.

15. jah
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Otto42 is right. Some hosts will make importing next to impossible. Sometimes you have to use wordpress.com as a go-between, but sometimes even that won't work.

    Two things I'd recommend after having gone through this: disable all plugins before importing (some will really scew it up - eg google mapping plugins). And if you're having to stop and start, make sure it's not just bloating your database (check via phpmyadmin).

16. keziahhill
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks everyone for your advice - I might try the export to free Wordpress.com and import from there and see how I go.

17. keziahhill
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    It worked!

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