I always use the wp cli utility in cases like these, when I have
command line access to the (current) web server.
https://wp-cli.org/
https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/search-replace/
e.g.
wp search-replace 'http://expired.com/my_wordpress_site' \
'https://www.mywordpresssite.com' --dry-run --skip-columns=guid
review the output, then remove the --dry-run option to actually
update the database.
The fact that wordpress still saves the site URL all over the
place in the database is more than a little ridiculous.
Hope that helps!
John
On Wed, 2023/11/29 12:15:34PM -0500, Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
|
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-your-wordpress-site-urls-step-by-step/
|
| try this, options 2-4 should work
|
| On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 11:40, William Witteman via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| wrote:
|
| > I am hoping to benefit from the experience of the group.
| >
| > I have to recreate a wordpress-based website for work, from partial
| > information.
| >
| > I have a database dump, and the contents of the web root - which gives me
| > hope that this is possible.
| >
| > What I don't have are any configuration files for the webserver, and this
| > wordpress site used to live as a subfolder of another domain which has not
| > been renewed - like http://expired.com/my_wordpress_site
| >
| > I also don't have the .htaccess file for the site.
| >
| > I put the files on my local Debian box, and re-created the database, but
| > all the links on the site are broken, because they still try to resolve
| > expired.com. I changed the siteurl in wordpress, but the problem
| > persists, and I am at a loss.
| >
| > Anyone have any advice?
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