Title: WordPress Paths
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Paths

 *  [oo7ml](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oo7ml/)
 * (@oo7ml)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/)
 * Hi, does anyone know why wordpress doesn’t just use relative paths instead of
   the full paths
 * full path = [http://www.mydomain.com/this-is-a-wordpress-page/](http://www.mydomain.com/this-is-a-wordpress-page/)
 * relative path = /this-is-a-wordpress-page/
 * This would then eliminate any problems when moving a wordpress site from one 
   domain name to another etc…

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667646)
 * It just the way the whole permalink (and possibly theme) system is built. There
   was some talk of completely rewriting the relevant part of core, so that might
   happen in the future but it will be a huge job, so don’t hold your breath. Keep
   on using absolute urls for the foreseeable future.
 *  Thread Starter [oo7ml](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oo7ml/)
 * (@oo7ml)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667651)
 * Ok cool, so if i have a site set up at demo.myserver.com and then i update the
   dns to point to the [http://www.domainname.com](http://www.domainname.com) when
   it is ready to be launched… should there be any problem… as i won’t be moving
   anything but the url of the site will change from demo.myserver.com to [http://www.domainname.com](http://www.domainname.com)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667659)
 * > should there be any problem
 * See [Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL).
 *  Thread Starter [oo7ml](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oo7ml/)
 * (@oo7ml)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667737)
 * Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667774)
 * See the page I linked to above for details of how to change the site urls correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [oo7ml](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oo7ml/)
 * (@oo7ml)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667795)
 * Sorry, the link did not show up on my phone, thanks for your help…

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [oo7ml](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oo7ml/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-paths-1/#post-2667795)
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