Title: bamerrell's Replies | WordPress.org --- # bamerrell [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357607) * I was afraid that I might have to start over. I do still have a full install in the root, but the copy has its own DB, etc. * Can you elaborate on the possibility of a .htcacess conflict? What comes to mind that might be amiss in the wp-config? And why would these prevent the script from being recognized? * I don’t want to take up too much of your time, but I would love to at least figure out what is wrong so I can learn from this headache. * Thanks! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357605) * Thanks! This looks like a great tool. * I’m trying to use it now; I’ve uploaded the file ‘searchreplacedb2.php’ it to‘ example.com/dev/’ and when I try to use my browser to navigate to ‘example.com/ dev/searchreplacedb2.php’ I get a 404. Am I being dumb or is my hosting provider possibly preventing me from running this? Or both maybe? * Thanks again! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357603) * So I’ve been really busy and I haven’t had the time to try the steps listed above, but I think I figured out what is going on here. * When I created this development site ‘www.example.com/dev’, I must have done something wrong. It looks like all the image links on the dev site are still pointing to the original site ‘www.example.com/wp-content/uploads…’. I tried my best to follow documentation when I made the dev site, but it was a long time ago so I don’t remember exactly what I did. I remember that I copied the original site and moved it over, but I don’t know the steps I took. * I think if I can manage to fix the image anchors on the dev site to point to ‘ wwww.example.com/dev/wp-content…’, it will be smooth sailing when I delete the original site and transition to the dev site. * Does anyone know how I can fix these links? I tried running the Velvet Blues Update URLs plugin to no avail: * Results 9 Content Items (Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Revisions) 0 Links 10 Attachments 34 Custom Fields * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357497) * I had to restore my pre-migrated site because I’m about to go off the grid for Thanksgiving weekend, and the site was unusable. * I’ll try out your fix early next week though and update with my progress. * Thanks again! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357465) * A little more info: I’ve tried running the plug-in with the following values: * Old URL: [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) New URL: [http://www.example.com/dev](http://www.example.com/dev) * and * Old URL: [http://www.example.com/dev](http://www.example.com/dev) New URL: [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) * I tried both just in case I had the two mixed up. Same result with both input sets. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Image links broken after changing site address from pre-existing install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/) * Thread Starter [bamerrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamerrell/) * (@bamerrell) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-links-broken-after-changing-site-address-from-pre-existing-install/#post-4357464) * Hi canah, thanks for your response. * I’ve tried tried that plug in several times for this issue, and the image references all still point to the bad location of ‘example.com/wp-content/uploads/…’. * Here are the results from running the plugin: Results 10 Content Items (Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Revisions) 0 Excerpts 0 Links 6 Attachments 32 Custom Fields * I have hundreds of images on the site. 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