[wp-hackers] Re: permalinks redirected despite WP_SITEURL

sunburntkamel sunburntkamel at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 19:23:34 GMT 2008


I'm not sure about posts, but for attachments, GUID is pretty
critical.  It's almost always preferable to do a find and replace on
your SQL dump before importing it ( replacing 'striderweb.com' with
'striderweb.local')

On Aug 25, 2:09 pm, "Daniel Torreblanca" <regulatet... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This might not be a solution but I had a real pain when I changed the
> domain name of my blog a while back. the `guid` column in wp_posts
> always contained the original URL, and this caused weird things to
> happen - most noticeably was that none of the images in my posts were
> served correctly anymore. I had to manually update all of those
> records.
>
> I was so frustrated from having to do that that I didn't even bother
> trying to find out what the `guid` was actually for or why it was
> causing the problem I noticed.
>
> Maybe this is somehow related?
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Rider
>
> <wp-hack... at striderweb.com> wrote:
> > Correction.  I do indeed have WP-HOME defined
>
> > define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://striderweb.local:8888');
> > define('WP_HOME', 'http://striderweb.local:8888');
>
> > (The 8888 ports are what MAMP goes through.)
>
> > On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Otto wrote:
>
> >> Try setting WP_HOME instead of WP_SITEHOME.
>
> >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Stephen Rider
> >> <wp-hack... at striderweb.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I have a WP test setup on my own computer.  What is striderweb.com on the
> >>> web is duplicated as striderweb.local on my computer.
>
> >>> I frequently do a backup of my live site's database, and then import it
> >>> into
> >>> the local setup so I can test directly.  After I've done this, "siteurl"
> >>> in
> >>> the database is still striderweb.com, so in wp-config.php I define
> >>> WP_SITEURL as "http://striderweb.local".  I've also defined WP_SITEHOME.
>
> >>> The permalinks on the main page are correct, but when I click on one, I
> >>> am
> >>> redirected to the post on striderweb.com.  If I copy the .local link and
> >>> past in a new browser window, it's redirected.
>
> >>> This ONLY happens with posts; not pages.  If I click a page link, it
> >>> comes
> >>> up correctly on .local
>
> >>> What could be going on here?  Somehow WP is insisting on redirecting me
> >>> to
> >>> the live site in spite of WP_SITEURL.
>
> >>> (This is WP 2.6.1)
>
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