# Problem Importing Project File

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-importing-project-file/18610>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [June 25, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-importing-project-file/18610 "2018-06-25T14:54:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tenyard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tenyard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tenyard)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-importing-project-file/18610/1 "2018-06-25T14:54:07Z")

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I have two instances of Ignition both 7.9.3 that serve as my development and production environments. I'm currently trying to export a project in the production environment to upload in it the development environment for some changes. When I attempt to do so through the web portal, I get the following error:

> Error Parsing project File  
> Premature end of file.

It then directs me to the logs, where I see the following:

> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.  
> at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)  
> at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)  
> at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.project.Project.hasVersionInfo(Project.java:1322)  
> at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.project.Project.hasVersionInfo(Project.java:1308)  
> at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.pages.config.ProjectUploadPage$1.onSubmit(ProjectUploadPage.java:77)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form$9.component(Form.java:1248)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form$9.component(Form.java:1242)  
> at org.apache.wicket.util.visit.Visits.visitPostOrderHelper(Visits.java:274)  
> at org.apache.wicket.util.visit.Visits.visitPostOrder(Visits.java:245)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.delegateSubmit(Form.java:1241)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.process(Form.java:923)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:769)  
> at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:702)  
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)  
> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)  
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)  
> at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.internalInvoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:258)  
> at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.invoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:216)  
> at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.invokeListener(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:240)  
> at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.respond(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:226)  
> at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle$HandlerExecutor.respond(RequestCycle.java:814)  
> at org.apache.wicket.request.RequestHandlerStack.execute(RequestHandlerStack.java:64)  
> at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.execute(RequestCycle.java:253)  
> at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequest(RequestCycle.java:210)  
> at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequestAndDetach(RequestCycle.java:281)  
> at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequest(WicketFilter.java:188)  
> at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doFilter(WicketFilter.java:245)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1668)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:581)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1160)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:511)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1092)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerList.handle(HandlerList.java:52)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:518)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:308)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:244)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:273)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:95)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceAndRun(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:246)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:156)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:654)  
> at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:572)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![tenyard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tenyard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tenyard)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-importing-project-file/18610/2 "2018-06-25T15:42:28Z")

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It appears that the issue is the production instance was upgraded to 7.9.4

I upgraded my development installation and the upload worked fine.