I am trying to use this project on GitHub https://github.com/ErisDS/Migrate to migrate the URL

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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T10:53:14+00:00 2026-05-25T10:53:14+00:00

I am trying to use this project on GitHub https://github.com/ErisDS/Migrate to migrate the URL

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I am trying to use this project on GitHub https://github.com/ErisDS/Migrate to migrate the URL settings in my WordPress database from a Localhost dev install to a live URL.

At the moment the code throws an error for the URL to be replaced “http://localhost/mysitename”, but does accept the new URL “http://www.mywebsitename.com”

From what I can tell the error comes from this regular expression not validating the localhost as a valid URL – any ideas how i can update this to accept the localhost URL?

The full code can be viewed on GitHub.

function checkURL($url)
 {
  $url_regex = '/^(http\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}(?:\/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*(?:\/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}(?:\?[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\=[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?)?(?:\&[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\=[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*)$/';
if($url == 'http://')
 {
 return false;
 }    
return preg_match($url_regex, $url);
}