[wp-testers] Changing Domain Problems

[Gregory Wild-Smith]

also - if you have uploaded any images using wordpress... you're pretty 
much screwed. The way WP stores the attachments in the DB means that 
transferring domains now is a really PITA...

-- Greg

Ryan Scheuermann wrote:
> Yeah, you have to basically do a find/replace on your whole DB for 
> both the domain name and if you change directory structures.  I 
> usually export the whole DB as SQL statements, do the find/replace 
> there, and then import the whole file.
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> Sean Hayford O'Leary wrote:
>> Find the two instances of your old domain in your wp_options table.
>>
>> Replace them with the new one and regenerate the rewrite rules.
>>
>> On 2/24/06, EJ Fox <ejfox at ejfox.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I made a site on a subdomain (fsnc.ejfox.com) to work on, I set it up
>>> with it's own SQL, all that stuff.
>>>
>>> So I went to transfer the content to the main site
>>> (freespiritnaturecamp.com) and I simply copied the config file into
>>> the new site because I was using the same database and such.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately none of my pages show up (using smart permalinks) and
>>> in wp-admin when I go to manage pages, the "view" link points to my
>>> old server. For example, I have a page "home" and it is one the old
>>> server "fsnc.ejfox.com/home/" and the wp-admin file links there. But
>>> on the new server "freespiritnaturecamp.com/home/" turns up a 404.
>>>
>>> I was curious as to how I would transfer all the data, but not make
>>> it site dependent.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --EJ Fox
>>> ejfox at ejfox.com
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