preserving hyperlink pointers during domain-domain migration

  • Resolved vbaphp

    (@vbaphp)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    to the experts here,

    I have a lot of ordered lists on many of my pages and tomorrow I am going to be switching from a linux hosting plan to a windows hosting plan at Godaddy. I have downloaded all the content that was on the linux OS and the apache server via an FTP client. My question is, based on the fact that I have many hyperlinks set to point to .zip files in the following image…

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=19NQtKhyBP9rszf1iJOI7mJnPHR8vTRah

    …when I re-upload all of the wordpress content to my windows hosting server (IIS), will those hyperlinks change in terms of their absolute addresses? I wouldn’t think they should, but I’ve had problems with wordpress before that I never got help with. I just want to be sure that I’m not missing something. thanks!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress topic

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    In general, I wouldn’t recommend moving to IIS on a Windows server. We actually recommend Apache or Nginx on a Linux server: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/about/requirements/

    If you’re using custom permalinks, those won’t work under IIS on a Windows server: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/article/using-permalinks/#using-pretty-permalinks

    That means your link structures will change, so you will definitely have to update your links throughout the site after the move.

    Thread Starter vbaphp

    (@vbaphp)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    James,

    The owner for whom I work is moving to ISS because he wants to run a .NET application web app on another domain associated with the same hosting account and .NET apps won’t run on linux and apache if they involved the ASP.NET framework.

    If you look in your links that you provided under the requirements section after “pretty permalinks” it says: Apache web server with the mod_rewrite module installed. does that mean that all of my HTML code behind the “id” attributes of my “< p >” tags will not work whatsoever on IIS and WINDOWS?

    thanks!

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by vbaphp.
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    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    You’ll have to end up either using the default permalink structure which ends with ?p=[post-id] like example.com/?p=123 or this version https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/article/using-permalinks/#pathinfo-almost-pretty which would look like example.com/index.php/2019/12/22/example-post/

    Those are the only two options under IIS, so if you currently have any other permalink structure, you will need to change any linked URLs through the site after moving to IIS.

    Thread Starter vbaphp

    (@vbaphp)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    ok I think I understand James. thanks. I think I’m going to be stuck with experimenting on my own regarding what’s going to happen. I don’t have an issue with updating links if they change, there just *should* be a better way to do this stuff. I’ll update this thread and tell you how i did when I get things rolling. Should be a couple 2-5 days.

    Thread Starter vbaphp

    (@vbaphp)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    James,

    I completed the migration and nothing changed. so all is well. i consider myself lucky. thanks for your help.

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