I am having a hard time. I have an old Wordpress website that I’ve managed to export the posts, comments, etc in MT format.
In order to import that of course, I have to start with a 1.7 EE install. That I did fine.
Then I went to upgrade that install to 2.x. There is nothing but data, no templates or anything, but this is a 7 year old WP blog with a LOT of comments. (And posts, but comments generally run 5-7 per post averaged out, so 5-7 times more of them).
So I’m watching my upgrade churn away at upgrading the database, and it gets to comments, gets most of the way there (70,000+ out of around 83,000) and I get a 500 Internal Server Error, presumably because the script is timing out.
I’ve tried twice by restoring everything to 1.7 (and my database backup restore via PHPMySQL chokes on the same damn table, what a nightmare) but this timeout has happened twice now, officially.
I guess my first question is, will an .htaccess increase in max_execution_time and the like make the script keep going and not time out?
What other options do I have?