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I migrated my WP deployment from the old server to the new server. The site still has the same URL (i.e. http://my.site.com) but I've moved my WP deploy from the site URL to a subdirectory of said URL (i.e. the WP deploy used to be found at http://my.site.com, but now it's at http://my.site.com/blog).

The good news is that I've got all the textual content migrated. The bad news is that the images aren't loading correctly. I took a closer look at the URLs for images embedded in posts and they all look something like this:

<img style="padding: 7px;" src="/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg" alt="Image" width="172" height="154" align="right" border="0">

Note the forward slash in the src attribute. What's happening is that the browser is looking to load the image at http://my.site.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg. But the site is deployed at http://my.site.com/blog now. I can find the image if I cut and paste the URL into my browser and pre-prend the correct WP site URL (i.e.http://my.site.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg).

What kind of WP kung-fu do I need to correct this?

I have read:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

I have looked at these:

http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

And they don't exactly help.

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It's a bit odd that there are root-relative URLs, WordPress by default uses absolute URLs when inserting images. However, probably the quickest fix is to open the SQL file in a text editor and just search and replace src="/wp-content/ with src="/blog/wp-content/, or the absolute URL, whatever you prefer.

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  • Can you point me to the documentation in the Codex on this? This is a good suggestion, though.
    – Son of the Wai-Pan
    Commented Mar 24, 2013 at 6:06
  • I used this suggestion. Just for anyone that's looking at this as a solution. Use sed (I tried to use a text editor but my file was too large): sed -E 's/<img([^>]+src=\\\")(\/wp-content[^>]+>)/<img\1https:\/\/my.site.com\/blog\2/g' < blog.mysql > blog.mysql.new This is with whatever sed comes with Mac OS X 10.7.5
    – Son of the Wai-Pan
    Commented Mar 25, 2013 at 4:42
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Forward slash is a good thing to make sure that you are accessing the resource from a path relative to the root domain

Why not just create a rewrite rule in the .htaccess like the one below and then always access it "/assets/img/". Makes more portable always

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^assets/img/(.*) /wp-content/uploads/$1 [QSA,L]
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