Title: Domain.com (single instance) to Domain.com (Multisite instance)
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Domain.com (single instance) to Domain.com (Multisite instance)

 *  Resolved [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domaincom-single-instance-to-domaincom-multisite-instance/)
 * I’m having problems going from domain.com to domain.com
 * the first instance is a normal, single instance installation of WordPress.
 * But the new host of domain.com (which isn’t live yet), is going to be a Multisite
   installation.
 * As I’m importing from the first instance into the multisite instance, it’s giving
   me “failed to import media” errors for all my files.
 * How can I fix this?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domaincom-single-instance-to-domaincom-multisite-instance/#post-4626612)
 * You cannot import _from_ domain.com _into_ domain.com. You’ll be attempting to
   create a loopback. At least one of your two sites will need to be switched over
   to & using a temporary url. If it’s the older site, then you will also need to
   create anew export file.
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domaincom-single-instance-to-domaincom-multisite-instance/#post-4626614)
 * Ah, that makes sense. I can do that.
 * Cheers

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## Tags

 * [importing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/importing/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domaincom-single-instance-to-domaincom-multisite-instance/#post-4626614)
 * Status: resolved

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