Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of how-to/wordpress/change-site-url

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May 22, 2018, 4:55:59 PM (6 years ago)

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JaimeV

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how-to/wordpress/change-site-url

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+The official wordpress documentation recommends several valid methods of changing your site url.
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+https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
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+If you still have access to the wordpress admin interface for your site under the  "Settings->General" screen changing the values of the two fields named "WordPress Address (URL)" and "Site Address (URL)" is the easiest way to do this.
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+However if you do not have access to the admin interface or want to be sure that this value is changed everywhere in your site we recommend using the [ https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli ] utility which we've installed on all of our standard servers for you. You will need to access the command line [ https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq/security/secure-shell | via ssh ] to use this tool.
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+Once you have access to the server you can navigate using the change directory command {{{cd}}} to your web folder or the folder that contains your wordpress installation before invoing the wp-cli utility with the command {{{wp}}.
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+wp-cli can both check and directly set the siteurl configuration value from the command line.
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+{{{
+0 siteuser@server:~/sitename.org/web$ wp option get siteurl
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+http://sitename.org
+}}}
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+In this example we will replace http with https for the site.
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+{{{
+0 siteuser@server:~/sitename.org/web$ wp option set siteurl https://sitename.org
+}}}
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+The wp-cli utility can also [https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/search-replace/ search and replace] any instances of a string in your database to replace text embedded in posts and other configuration fields in your site that might still be pointing to the old url.
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+This example uses the {{{--dry-run}}} argument to test without making any real changes. Remove the {{{--dry-run}}} argument and run again to make those changes effective.
+{{{
+0 siteuser@server:~/sitename.org/web$  wp search-replace --dry-run http://sitename.org https://sitename.org --skip-columns=guid
+}}}
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+You may also choose to use the same method to ensure other versions of the url that might exist in your site. Below are just a couple of examples
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+{{{
+0 siteuser@server:~/sitename.org/web$  wp search-replace  --dry-run  http://www.sitename.org https://sitename.org --skip-columns=guid
+}}}
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+{{{
+0 siteuser@server:~/sitename.org/web$  wp search-replace  --dry-run  http://oldsitename.org https://sitename.org --skip-columns=guid
+}}}
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