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I've built a wordpress site through a WAMP local host server and have exported it onto a single SQL file. I've installed wordpress onto my third party server but when I try to import this file onto the database I get an error.

SQL query:

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-- Database: cosmosdesign

-- Table structure for table wp_commentmeta

CREATE TABLE wp_commentmeta ( meta_id bigint( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL , .comment_id bigint( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', meta_key varchar( 255 ) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci DEFAULT NULL , meta_value longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci ) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = >utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

MySQL said: Documentation 1273 - Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci'

I'm not experienced enough to know what this means, could someone please explain it to me and hopefully suggest how I could fix it? Thankyou.

ps. I won't be able to reply for an hour or so.

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You're having this issue as your third party server doesn't support the utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci collation type.

You can either contact your host to correct this or convert the collation for all tables with utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci to utf8_general_ci

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  • Thankyou, I did a search and replace for utf8mb4 to replace it with utf8. This fixed this error. Now I'm stuck with a new one. Thanks for the help.
    – Max Power
    Dec 21, 2016 at 12:00

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