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 Want to replace a string in all the posts on a site? Let’s get started! warning WARNING: We strongly recommend you take a full backup before proceeding, and make sure your string replacement is specific enough to affect only the places you want it to. If this string replacement goes wrong, every…

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?) have not been updated.

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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