[wp-hackers] Re: permalinks redirected despite WP_SITEURL

[Daniel Torreblanca]

So why did changing this to my new URL suddenly make the images work?
If it's just being used as a UUID, I wouldn't think that would be the
case.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> The GUID field should not be used as a URL anywhere in the whole of
> WordPress. The fact that it is a URL is only coincidental.
>
> All the GUID field should be is a globally unique identifier. That's
> it. The URL is good for this because it will be unique across all
> blogs everywhere in the world. Admittedly, I prefer to use a real UUID
> in my designs, but the URL works just as well.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM, sunburntkamel <sunburntkamel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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