Wordpress Path

Discussion in 'PHP' started by oo7ml, Apr 4, 2012.

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    Hi, does anyone know why wordpress doesn't just use relative paths instead of the full paths

    full path = www.mydomain.com/this-is-a-wordpress-page/

    relative path = /this-is-a-wordpress-page/

    This would then eliminate any problems when moving a wordpress site from one domain name to another etc...
     
    oo7ml, Apr 4, 2012 IP
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    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    I have a feeling you won't have problems migrating a Wordpress site to another domain as the paths are generated dynamically by PHP. Therefore, as long as you have the correct domain set in Wordpress settings it won't be a problem. (Unless someone has hand written the absolute path.)
     
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    oo7ml Well-Known Member

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    Ok, thanks but what about images and pdf documents that have been uploaded to media... should that be the same, thanks again for your help
     
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    Use this to search and replace any "hard-coded" domain references in posts.
     
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    Cool, thanks...
     
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