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By: vipin

vipin — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:19:21 +0000

thx for the info

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By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:10:53 +0000

Murk,

thanks for the suggestion. There are indeed quite a few plugins to handle this task, but perhaps it’s time to give them all a hard look and select the one that does the job properly. ;)

By: Murk

Murk — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:06:30 +0000

Idea for future article:

Automated mirroring, i.e. d/load the sql dbase from the first server, install it on second server, rewrite references in the wp dbase to reflect the new location (e.g. server name and path – possibly blog title/subtitle).

Repeat process automagically at intervals.

(Yes, there is the feedwordpress plugin, but that doesn’t take all the data, e.g. comments etc)

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By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:07:27 +0000

Aaron,

it’s clear now. Thanks a lot for the explanation. Indeed, this is one way to do this, and suits well for development-production switching. In fact, this can be further extended with a couple of admin options, for URLs on production/development servers. This way a single version of plugin can be used to work on multiple sites – handy for web design companies, like ours.

Thanks for the idea. :)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:44:41 +0000

care to elaborate? How do you see this done? The easiest way is to just filter the home and siteurl options: (ignore the function names, I pulled them out of a project.)



	add_filter('option_home', 'sprcat_fix_link',0);
	add_filter('option_siteurl', 'sprcat_fix_link',0);

function sprcat_fix_link ($link){
	$url = str_replace(array('www.','./'),'',$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

	if(strpos($link,$url) === false ){

			$link = preg_replace('/(http.*?\:\/\/w*\.*)(.*?)(\/?.*)/','${1}'.$url.'${3}',$link);
		
	}
return $link;
}

You could get all fancy and actually change the link, but this will be perfect if you have a mirror install. If you don't you may have to use an if/else instead of the preg_replace:


if($url != 'anthologyoi.com'){
$link = 'http://localhost/test/dev/aoi/';

}