How can I go about updating image URLS in older posts? Having made a domain name change for the whole site, they now point to the old non-existent site.

This should do it: [image] Replace a string in all posts Self-Hosting bookmark This guide explains how to replace a string in all posts within a Discourse instance. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator warning Console Access Required…

That worked great. Except - I got three very uninformative errors: Failed to remap post (topic_id: , post_id: 111) Failed to remap post (topic_id: , post_id: 189) Failed to remap post (topic_id: , post_id: 216) Failed - why? And some posts, whose ID I cant figure out (how do you do that, also…

Check those identified posts manually to see what’s different. The url will be like /p/111 .

That is very useful to know. However, each of those post ID’s results in a 404 error when accessed this way. It would be good to know what’s going on with them.

They are most likely posts that were deleted earlier.

Updating image URL's after a domain change

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omarfilip February 3, 2021, 5:02am 2

This should do it:

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Updating image URL's after a domain change

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