I have a slight problem with a wordpress migration. I've bulk uploaded posts from csv on my local WAMP server as it's faster and then uploaded & imported a SQL dump to the remote server.
In the guid column of the wp_posts table, it contains the url of the post - I presume (might be wrong, please correct if I am) this is the same as the 'permalink' setting when you edit a post - and all of them are http://localhost/post-name/ which is fine for now, I'm happy to work on an SQL query to replace if needed.
I've uploaded the SQL dump and it still shows 'http://localhost/post-name' in the remote server db as expected. However when I search for a post on the frontend, just to make sure it's picking up the posts OK, I was expecting the links to give me a 404 error until I changed the links, but they don't - they point nicely to the http://remoteserver.com/post-name/
Where as it's a nice problem to have as it still works - I was wondering why & do I need to change it? I prefer to not mess with the db if at all possible.
When migrating, you might need to define your wordpress url in wp-config.php, and I recommend find and replacing the database with this tool. It's pretty neat, because it pre-populates your database from your config file. Obviously, you'd replace http://localhost/ with http://www.yoursite.com/
define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');
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I am making a copy of a WordPress website on another server. Everything is OK in copying the database.
However, I need to replace the old domain name "old.com" with "new.com" in some MySQL tables. I am using the following query:
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value, 'https://old.com/', 'http://new.com/')
This works for a lot of things (like the site URL), however, it breaks all my CSS modifications to the template and all my options, it's sort of restored into default settings directly after I run the previous command.
What could be the reasons?
When moving a Wordpress table the Database Search and Replace Script by interconnect/it does the job very well.
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
The software is designed for exactly the purpose of replacing olddomain.com with newdomain.com.
All you do is extract Search Replace DB to it's own directory off the root of the Wordpress installation. You then run
newdomain.com/Search-Replace-DB-master
This will automatically find your Wordpress database and will provide search and replace field. It allows a dry run where you can check the results before doing the live run.
Hope this is useful. I have used this many times when changing the domain for a Wordpress installation and it works every time.
Never manually replace URL use https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/ plugin to safely search & replace old URL with new one.
I have a Wordpress Multisite installation, and the root domain is set to root-domain.com. I would like to switch it with one of the sites of the network (site-in-network.com), and make it a root domain.
This way site-in-network.com would become the root domain, and root-domain.com would become one of the sites in the network (100+ sites).
I've done search and replace on a database before, and it worked, but I was dropping a domain all together, so I just replaced domain-a.com with domain-b.com. This time it is different, I want to keep both of them, and just switch the positions in the database.
I guess I would need to run a MySQL query. As far as I know, the root domain was set to something like "www.root-domain.com", and all other sites in the network were like "site-in-network.com" (without the .www part)
The database is about 0.5GB, so it would be good to get it right the first time.
Thank you in advance for any info.
It can be done with a search and replace, but mind you that wordpress is also storing site information in a serialized form in the tables. That means that a default search and replace will break a lot of stuff, so be careful with that.
There is however a script that takes this into account: http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Download it and put it in your root folder. (And afterwards, delete it!!)
Using this script you could change root-domain.com to root-domain.tmp.com and then site-in-network.com to root-domain.com. After that you could rename root-domain.tmp.com to site-in-network.com. Basicly what Plamen Nikolov suggested to do in the first place.
Here is a little bit of a craftily solution:
You can still workaround the situation with the find and replace technique using fake domain name:
Replace site-in-network.com with some-fake-unique-name.com
Replace root-domain.com with site-in-network.com
Finally some-fake-unique-name.com with root-domain.com.
There is also solution without changing the database, by definining HOME and SITE URL like here: Changing the Site URL
I have a client who needs to have data imported into drupal from a large spreadsheet. They already had the modules setup and I have the data all in the right tables... so it seems. I have run my own custom scripts to manipulate what was in the spreadsheets and exported / imported it into the drupal databases.
However, when I go to view that type of content in the backend, it shows there are multiple pages of data but displays "No content available." in every page. Here are the tables I imported to:
// for the business listing node type
field_data_field_bd_address_city
field_data_field_bd_address_street
field_data_field_bd_address_zip
field_data_field_bd_business_type
field_data_field_bd_contact_email
field_data_field_bd_contact_name
field_data_field_bd_description
field_data_field_bd_image
field_data_field_bd_listing_type
field_data_field_bd_phone
field_data_field_bd_tags
field_data_field_bd_website
// drupal default tables
node
node_comment_statistics
taxonomy_index
taxonomy_term_data
taxonomy_term_hierarchy
taxonomy_vocabulary
Am I missing any tables that I need to import data into to make connections?
I had this problem before and it took me a while to solve it. This was before anyone had mentioned the feeds module to me so I thought it was my only option.
If you're going to upload straight into your database you need to enter the data into the revisions tables as well. So you would have:
// for the business listing node type
field_data_field_bd_address_city
field_data_field_bd_address_street
field_data_field_bd_address_zip
field_data_field_bd_business_type
field_data_field_bd_contact_email
field_data_field_bd_contact_name
field_data_field_bd_description
field_data_field_bd_image
field_data_field_bd_listing_type
field_data_field_bd_phone
field_data_field_bd_tags
field_data_field_bd_website
And also:
// for the business listing node type
field_revision_field_bd_address_city
field_revision_field_bd_address_street
field_revision_field_bd_address_zip
field_revision_field_bd_business_type
field_revision_field_bd_contact_email
field_revision_field_bd_contact_name
field_revision_field_bd_description
field_revision_field_bd_image
field_revision_field_bd_listing_type
field_revision_field_bd_phone
field_revision_field_bd_tags
field_revision_field_bd_website
The same goes for the node table. This took me a while to work out and worked for me. Typically someone then mentioned the feeds module which would have saved me time but I thought I'd share what worked for me.
Instead of manually importing the data directly into the database and trying to figure out how to satisfy all the relational dependencies to make it work, I would suggest using the Feeds module
If you wish to continue with the manual process, perhaps this ER diagram of the Drupal database will help (keep in mind it is a bit dated and was likely based on earlier versions of Drupal 7).
I figured it out. I had to add data to the node_revision table with status of 1 set to all the nodes and it worked out just fine after that!
First, thanks for your help.
As a noob, I've been happily chugging along this well-known tutorial:
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#top
and I'm caught in a section where I enter
rspec spec/
where I receive 2 errors. The 2 errors are in the format of
PagesController GET 'home' should be
successful
Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
Mysql2::Error:Unknown database 'xyz.rb'
where "home" is the name of the action/page. The xyz.rb is the arbitrary
database name I have listed under the test section in database.yml. I
have already raked the database.
I'm pretty sure my problem has to do with how I'm not going with the
sqlite3 in the tutorial but instead with mysql2. The resources I have
managed to find only give guidance on what to input for the development
section in database.yml, but not for the rest of the sections like
"test". So, my question is, what exactly does this error mean, how to
fix it, and how should I configure my database.yml file? I tried
entering a file I see in my db folder like schema.rb, but this renders
the same error.
Thank you very much for your help.
You have two options:
Set up another sqlite database, as is default with a new rails application, or
Create another MySQL database, the same way you set up your development database, with a different name (such as test) and use that for testing.
Here's my database.yml file from the Rails Tutorial that uses SQLite for all the databases; you should be able to copy the test section if you decide to go with #1 above.
My current project is about doing some changes in an already build web application (PHP/MySQL). For displaying data, the previous developer used views. I got the app on my computer in order to get familiar with it and I can't seem to make those views work (I don't get any output in the app).
I searched the web for this an there seems to be a problem when you create a view with one database user and the that user no longer exists.
Anyone who got into this issue before? How can this be solved?
If you're importing the views from SQL dump file, they are probably defined like this
CREATE DEFINER = 'userWhoDoesNotExist#thisServer' VIEW viewName AS ....
Try removing the DEFINER = part, and the view will be created using currenct user account.
since you are running the server on your own computer, I am assuming you have root access. Try using something like
ALTER VIEW brokenView DEFINER='newuser'
this passes the validation check here. As long as you are root when you do this, you should be able to recover your views.