Title: URL inside [vc_raw_html] shortcode
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# URL inside [vc_raw_html] shortcode
* [alainroger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger-1/)
* (@alainroger-1)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/)
* Hi,
* i have a website i developed on my local computer and now i’m trying to migrate
it to productive environment.
* i used as a lot of developers a visudal composer plugin that as several other
plugins stores html code in MySQL, using the shortcode [vc_raw_html].
* if a URL is stored inside this tag, duplicator do not migrate it to new location.
* So is there a switch or a setting that i must configure before migration to fix
this issue ?
* thx.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)
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* [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
* (@corylamleorg)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/#post-5072369)
* That is odd… I have used raw shortcodes without issues… The shortcode should
not effect how the translation of data gets handled. Can you run a query before
and after the install to compare the differences? On the install report (step
3 of the installer) did you get any errors?
* [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
* (@alainroger)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/#post-5072397)
* i installed it without any issue, but i just uncompress the zip file nothing
more.
* here it is what i found:
visual composer 4.3.1 duplicator 0.5.4 Element having
issue: RAW HTML ([http://prntscr.com/3zzg48](http://prntscr.com/3zzg48)) of visual
composer
* in MySQL here is the code snippet…
`[vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyc2VydmljZS1saW5rJTIyJTIwdGl0bGUlM0QlMjJJJTIwd2FudCUyMGElMjBXZWJzaXRlJTJDJTIwV2Vi...[/
vc_raw_html]`
* here it is how to get a clean content… so firstly uncoded with MIME base64 and
next rawurldecde.
* rawurldecode(base64_decode(strip_tags($content)));
* thx
* [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
* (@corylamleorg)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/#post-5072453)
* Hey Alian,
* I see the issue. Duplicator does look for base64 strings and tries to decode
them however in the case of that short code it looks like it is intermixing base64
strings with normal characters, which is normally not a best practices approach.
* The engine that does the base64 extraction assumes that the entire field is base64
encoded. The replace engine would have to be written to perform the extraction
at a more general level on larger text strings, basically detecting the base64
string inside the larger string, extracting it, replacing it, then safely reconstructing
it… It would definitely have to be a separate option as doing those types of
look ups with PHP could really slow things down.
* I’ll add the item to the todo list and see if there is a way to work around that
type of configuration.
* Cheers~
* [zubeldialuis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zubeldialuis/)
* (@zubeldialuis)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/#post-5072617)
* I have the same problem! i follow this treath for news. Thanks!
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* Last reply from: [zubeldialuis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zubeldialuis/)
* Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-inside-vc_raw_html-shortcode/#post-5072617)
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