Title: Using Search and Replace with multisite
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using Search and Replace with multisite

 *  Resolved [j w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinmwoodum/)
 * (@justinmwoodum)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-search-and-replace-with-multisite/)
 * Hello. I have an existing multisite installed locally. I want to migrate it to
   a web host. To do that, I would like to use Search and Replace on my local instance
   to first update the site URLs to match the new location (I realize this will 
   break the local site, but will give me a db version I can upload to the web host).
 * It seems the Search and Replace plugin is not made for multisite though – the
   tool itself is accessed via the WordPress admin Tools menu. This menu is Not 
   available via the Network dashboard, only the dashboard for each site.
 * Does anyone know of a way to safely do this using this plugin? Do I have to go
   to each site’s dashboard and use the tool one-at-a-time? Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/)

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 *  [nowton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowton/)
 * (@nowton)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-search-and-replace-with-multisite/#post-4014702)
 * Same here; I need to replace file-links on a subsite, but there’s no way to replace
   stuff on the subsite, only multisite-wide. Pity.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-search-and-replace-with-multisite/#post-4014704)
 * Yes, but the plugin will get a solutions for this.
    It give ready and free solutions,
   outside WP for WP, this is better and stable. [https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB](https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB)
 *  [nowton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowton/)
 * (@nowton)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-search-and-replace-with-multisite/#post-4014705)
 * Frank, that’s not an answer for me, sorry. As for Justin: I use [WordPress Migrate DB](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/)
   for that

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