Title: Broken Image Path
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Broken Image Path

 *  [bradhodges09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradhodges09/)
 * (@bradhodges09)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/)
 * I have searched the forum but cannot find an answer for a specific issue I am
   having with images after a move of my blog. I saw a lot of similar issues but
   no specific answer for my issue.
 * Prior to the move my blog was in a directory structure like this: [http://mysitename.com/blog](http://mysitename.com/blog)(
   sub-directory)
 * I changed the domain name and moved the blog to a new hosting account with the
   directory structure now [http://mysitename.com](http://mysitename.com) (root 
   directory)
 * I got everything to work except that none of the old images in each post are 
   showing. I checked a single post and the image path was shown as: /blog/wp-content/
   uploads/cc/imagename.jpg
 * When I changed the single post to: /wp-content/uploads/cc/imagename.jpg the image
   now shows.
 * I realize of course that I moved the blog from a sub directory structure to a
   root directory structure. What I am trying to find out is where can I go to make
   an all encompassing change that will point all prior posts to the the new structure(/
   wp-content/uploads/cc/imagename.jpg vs /blog/wp-content/uploads/cc/imagename.
   jpg) as opposed to having to go through each and every post to change it.
 * I already tried going to the Settings/Miscellaneous and putting wp-content/uploads
   as the path to store images but I realize this is only going to affect new posts
   and not make a change to the old posts.
    Is there a .php file I can change or
   something in the MYSQL structure to make this change so it is all encompassing
   for the old posts?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282271)
 * export a database .sql back up
    do a search and replace with notepad or similar
   to change url paths import database
 * always back up 1st
 *  Thread Starter [bradhodges09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradhodges09/)
 * (@bradhodges09)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282376)
 * Thanks samboll but do I find the .sql backup in MyPhp Admin? I read about doing
   this somewhere but I did not know where to find that? Sorry I am just not all
   that familiar with MySQL.
 *  [wwhitehead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wwhitehead/)
 * (@wwhitehead)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282437)
 * In phpMyAdmin click on the ‘Export’ tab at the top. On the resulting page, make
   sure you click the ‘Save as file’ checkbox and then the ‘Go’ button. This will
   save a copy of your database to your computer. You can then go in notepad and
   do a find and replace on your URL.
 *  Thread Starter [bradhodges09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradhodges09/)
 * (@bradhodges09)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282439)
 * Thank you very much for your help!
 *  [acalderondynamiciccom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acalderondynamiciccom/)
 * (@acalderondynamiciccom)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282508)
 * Thanks for the info guys. I’ve exported the sql database, made my changes in 
   notepad but how do I go by importing the database back properly? I see the import
   option but it won’t allow me to import it back since the original copy is still
   in myphpadmin. Please advise and thanks in advance for the help!
 *  [wwhitehead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wwhitehead/)
 * (@wwhitehead)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282509)
 * You are going to want to go back to your existing database structure page, check
   each of the boxes, next to each of the table and drop them. This will delete 
   all of the tables from your database, and now you can go and import in the new
   data.

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 * Last reply from: [wwhitehead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wwhitehead/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-image-path/#post-1282509)
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