Merging an old database into a new install

[Tom Keyes]

I have a friend whose WordPress site was badly hacked and the only thing recoverable was the database.  I am trying to restore as much of the old site I can on my hosting service, but have run into a hangup.  I cannot import the old database into the new site. Using myPHPAdmin to import the database, I get tow error messages:

import.php: Missing parameter: import_type

import.php: Missing parameter: format

Here's the input I'm trying to use to import the file:

Importing into the database "wordsand_wrdp1"

File to Import:

File may be compressed (gzip, bzip2, zip) or uncompressed.
A compressed file's name must end in .[format].[compression]. Example: .sql.zip

Browse your computer:(Max: 50MiB)

Character set of the file:iso-8859-1iso-8859-2iso-8859-3iso-8859-4iso-8859-5iso-8859-6iso-8859-7iso-8859-8iso-8859-9iso-8859-10iso-8859-11iso-8859-12iso-8859-13iso-8859-14iso-8859-15windows-1250windows-1251windows-1252windows-1256windows-1257koi8-rbig5gb2312utf-16utf-8utf-7x-user-definedeuc-jpks_c_5601-1987tis-620SHIFT_JIS 

Partial Import:

 Allow the interruption of an import in case the script detects it is close to the PHP timeout limit. (This might be a good way to import large files, however it can break transactions.)

Number of rows to skip, starting from the first row: 

Format:

CSV Open Document Spreadsheet ESRI Shape File SQL XML 

Format-Specific Options:

• SQL compatibility mode:NONEANSIDB2MAXDBMYSQL323MYSQL40MSSQLORACLETRADITIONAL
• Do not use AUTO_INCREMENT for zero values

Can anyone shed any light on why this doesn't work?

Thanks,

Tom

[Toby C]

Tom,

It looks like you need to update Plesk or cPanel on the server.  I had a similar issue this week, and that was the solution that worked for me.

Toby

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[Tom Keyes]

Toby,

cPanel is outside my control. I'm trying to see if I can get the hosting service to look at it.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Tom