Question

I am trying to move a WordPress installation from one server to another one, including all of the SQL data, and the file-system data (photos,template files).

I just have a problem changing the URLs in the database, since I need to replace the new URL with the old one.

I would love to have some suggestions about how can I replace the URLs (maybe there’s a rplace statement in SQL?)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Edit 5/16/2015

It’s much better to use interconnectit.com WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool to find/replace URLs in the database and to correctly deserialize/reserialize that data. Doing a find/replace in a text dump or with the UPDATE queries below will break serialized data.

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Several easy ways: How to Move WordPress Blog to New Domain or Location » My Digital Life:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 
'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com')
 WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

and others:
How to Find and Replace Text in WordPress MySQL Database using SQL When Changing Domains » My Digital Life

Search RegEx « WordPress Plugins for grepping through posts and pages as a WP plugin-based way to replace image and other URLs in posts and pages.

And there’s Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex.