Forwarding old domain image links to new domain

  • Resolved larrinski

    (@larrinski)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I have 2 old domains that I have forward to my new domain with Godaddy. The forwarding seems to work fine. All my blog posts seem forward properly as well. Example olddomain.com/blog/articlename automatically shows the post at newdomain.com/blog/articlename, which is important for all my google indexed content. But for some reason all my images don’t do the same behaviour. I have noticed that in my stats I have quite a few people finding my site via image searches, but when they click the image it goes to a 404 page, because olddomain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/image is not there, though the image location is the same.

    How do I autodirect the image link to the new domain name? All that seems to need to be done is replace olddomain.com with newdomain.com in the address bar and the image link works fine. For the time being I have added a comment on my 404 asking the viewer to amend it themselves…

    Any ideas?
    Thanks,
    larrinski

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  • Thread Starter larrinski

    (@larrinski)

    Bump. Any ideas?

    Cheers,
    larrinski

    Thread Starter larrinski

    (@larrinski)

    I have been messing around in the media library, and I can’t seem to change the image URL to my new domain manually even after saving. It seems to revert back to the old domain.

    I changed all my posts manually so the images show in the post, but if you click on the image, it keeps wanting to go to the old domain. How the heck do I change the image URL in the media library? It seems so easy…Must be missing something simple?

    Thread Starter larrinski

    (@larrinski)

    Last bump. Is there anyone that knows why my images are holding onto their previous permalinks, and why I can’t change them to my new domain?
    And/or, how to have them auto forward from my old domain name to the new one?

    Hi,
    I changed the address of my wordpress installation recently and had the same problem with the images. I used the “Search and Replace” plugin and had everything working within seconds! You’ll find it
    HERE    .
    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter larrinski

    (@larrinski)

    I tried to switch the domain references(atheist.nu to end-of-silence.org for instance) but it didn’t seem to amend anything in my media library. It only changed any reference is my postings.

    Maybe I will have to reference each full permalink and have “search & replace” change each one at a time…

    Thanks for you assistance though!

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