Wordpress Error "Failed to import Media"

June 11, 2014 13.2k views
anand.srikantaiah
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I followed the instructions "How To Install Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04" here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-nginx-php-and-varnish-on-ubuntu-12-04 and I'm trying to import content form my old wordpress site, but import of media is failing with error "Failed to import Media" and My old site runs on Apache
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asb MOD June 11, 2014
How are you trying to import content? Using an xml file exported from the old site? If so, is your old site still reachable on the internet? If you look at the contents of the xml file, you'll see that it includes links for the image files. So to import them, the old site must still be reachable. There are a number of reasons that this could happen. Another one is that the the import file contains custom post types and data related to a specific theme. If that's the case, make sure to switch your new Wordpress site's theme to match the old site's first.
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anand.srikantaiah June 11, 2014
Yes the site is accessible on internet, and I did check the image links in the exported xml file and they are too accessible
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  • asb MOD June 11, 2014
    I edited my answer above to have another suggestion. Is there anymore to the error message?
anand.srikantaiah June 12, 2014
Nope I did try your suggestion but did not work, and I have an another droplet with one click install and it works perfectly there
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anand.srikantaiah June 12, 2014
The issue occurs only when I use Nginx, when I try with Apache import goes through smoothly
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craiganderson April 21, 2015

Did you ever figure this out? I’m having the same problem now and it’s really cramping my style.

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