Title: wordpress portability?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wordpress portability?

 *  [significance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/significance/)
 * (@significance)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/)
 * i find it really frustrating moving wordpress from server to server and to a 
   new url.
 * this is mainly due to the fact that the url is hard coded in the database, requiring
   me to open up the sql and do a find and replace.
 * is there an easy way to do this that i’m missing?
 * if not, then would it be possible to make wordpress more portable? i would be
   happy to help design/code the feature.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410633)
 * > is there an easy way to do this that i’m missing?
 * Yeah.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server)
 *  Thread Starter [significance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/significance/)
 * (@significance)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410729)
 * surely it would be possible to use the $SERVER globals to get the ‘blog url’ 
   rather than making entries in the database with the [http://blog.url/](http://blog.url/)
   part of the url?
 * that would make the process so much easier, since you could just backup/reup 
   the database using your normal database admin tools without messing around…
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410741)
 * Yes and no.
 * WordPress runs on many different types of servers, and they aren’t all configured
   the same same. By having thw blog URL (and home URL) definable, you open up the
   software for a myriad of possible configurations.
 * Heck, you can even use one WP install for multiple domains, if you do it right
   🙂
 * Your change would work, but it would limit WordPress.
 * And if making ONE change before exporting your database is too much work, well,
   to each their own 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [significance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/significance/)
 * (@significance)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410745)
 * i can see where you’re coming from, but for me the url should be defined either
   in the wp-config.php file with the database details or not at all.
 * i don’t know too much about server compatibility so couldn’t comment 🙂
 * thanks for your answers!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410760)
 * > i can see where you’re coming from, but for me the url should be defined either
   > in the wp-config.php file with the database details or not at all.
 * You CAN override the database with the wp-config file.
 *     ```
       define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
       define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');
       ```
   
 * Done. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [significance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/significance/)
 * (@significance)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410778)
 * ah – excellent.
 * i have noticed other entries in the sql file but that is maybe just a dodgy plugin..
 * thanks!!! 🙂
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410781)
 * Oh, there are other entries, alas :/ Probably images. Moving a server to a new
   URL is always a pain in the backside.
 * These directions are pretty straightforward about it: [http://yoast.com/move-wordpress-blog-domain-10-steps/](http://yoast.com/move-wordpress-blog-domain-10-steps/)
 *  Thread Starter [significance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/significance/)
 * (@significance)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410888)
 * ah – i see. that would explain me being linked to this ticket [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11394](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11394)
 * their solution seems awfully complicated though – surely it’s just a case of 
   concatenating $blog_url on to the relative url of the image?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410903)
 * It’s not as simple as that, though in many ways I wish it could be. :/ It’s a
   complicated fix because the setup is complicated in order to support all options
   it currently supports, and going forward.
 * I don’t envy the people working on it.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-portability/#post-1410909)
 * Related ticket:
    [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12502](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12502)

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