eek! domain changeover loses images

  • Resolved creativeness666

    (@creativeness666)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    My domain host has very kindly removed the old domain I set up with them for free when I added most of my media. Since moving to a new domain, they kept the old domain which pointed to the new one. they have recently reclaimed the free domain – which now results in me having loads of images with a file url of:

    http://domainx.com/uploads/imgss.jpg – broken

    which break because domainx is no longer valid but the NEW domain my site is on production with domainY.com if relaced, works.

    http://domainY.com/uploads/imgss.jpg – works

    so my question is – how can I bulk update any URL (not all of them are like this) where the file is pointing to my old domainx to domainY?

    many thanks.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant/

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  • Thread Starter creativeness666

    (@creativeness666)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Please note ^ everything else in my wordpress site is pointing to my NEW domainY – so I dont think its a case of changing my wordpress domain.

    Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for your question. There is no specific MLA feature for this kind of fix, but it would not be difficult to make a small custom plugin to do some repairs. It would be similar to one I created for this earlier topic:

    alt text reconciliation

    Of course, I’d have to know exactly where the broken URLs appear on your site. Are they in the posts database table (e.g., in the guid column)? Do they appear in the body of your posts/pages?

    Any additional details you can provide would be most helpful. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

    Thread Starter creativeness666

    (@creativeness666)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    SOLVED: Many thanks for the response – I am not sure how it fixed but I had gone through the DB and updated all references of the old domain to the new, which initially didnt fix it, but then I realised I make the file area read only to stop my host running updates on my site, and I took it off for 20 minutes and something must have refreshed as it now works…

    Thanks anyway for the speedy response!

    Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for your update with the good news. I am happy you were able to find and fix the cause of your problem.

    I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it or start a new topic if there’s anything I can do to help you get the most out of MLA.

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