Settings & widget import not working for Wordpress hosted on AWS Linux AMI

Question

I have a Wordpress site that I am hosting with an AWS micro instance. I purchased a template that requires me to import settings and widgets. I keep getting errors when I use the Wordpress settings import add-on.

I have tried looking at :

• http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-settings-importerexporter-import-doesnt-work

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

• http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=18522

with no success.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem - and when setting up your machine image check that you installed php-xml. Wordpress importer uses xml to bring in the settings. Here is a link to the tutorial I followed -

blog-tutorial

And here is the specific line to install php-xml used -

sudo yum install php-xml