Relative Images

You can do a search and replace with this plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search-regex/

Thanks keesiemeijer, but this is effectively what I am doing now but would like to avoid.

Aside from the baseurl, I would like to have a database that was otherwise the same both on and off line with relatively addressed images and links.

try making all url’s relative: https://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201010/how_to_make_wordpress_urls_root_relative/

Thanks again keesiemeijer, but this still doesn’t give me what I want; this cleans permalinks from absolute to root relative (which they would be far better being anyway).

I have lots of images in hundreds of posts in the database and I would like them to be the same on both localhost and live sites so that I don’t have to change hundreds of records every single time I upload/download.

The fundamental problem is that the root of the site is https://www.sitename.com or localhost/sitename (which is a level off webserver root).

WordPress just doesn’t seem capable of handling it. I don’t know if I can do something such as an Alias in httpd.conf.

I don’t know if this is a solution on your localhost. In my computers host file I have this :

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 sitename.dev

now when I browse to my localhost site I go to https://sitename.dev

This is how I achieved this virtual host: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-multisite-on-a-local-development-site?replies=49

Thanks again keesiemeijer.

I think you have confirmed that there is nothing within WordPress to handle this so I need to look at an external fix.

It is pretty normal to have several development websites under localhost so it would be a nice future feature to be able to accommodate relative path images.

Well, with virtual hosts you can have multiple development websites with normal urls. Can’t you use the relative url fix from a few posts back? It is a bit of a hassle to set up multiple virtual hosts but once it’s working it is so easy to set up a new development website.

Thanks keesiemeijer.

I will try for an httpd.conf solution because there are numerous websites running under localhost and I like to keep code hacks to a minimum.