Re: Retrospective on the WPengine migration of the blog

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:50 AM Michael Scherer <mscherer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 16:29 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> >
> > Issue 5: They link
> > ==================
> >
> > Ryan Lerch did found today that among the post, there is some who are
> > different, and that at least 1 post had wrong links:
> >
> >
> >
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/2D44QAWFUFW6W3YWH7GBDLMHJFYITY7K/
> >
> >
> > Upon looking at the export file, the link was correct, but it seems
> > that WP is fixing things on import, or something like that. I need to
> > see if that's in the DB or a setting somewhere else.
> >
> > I suspect the domain name was different at the time of the migration,
> > in the wordpress configuration, so it tried to make things correct. I
> > guess we need to make sure the server is 100% correct before we
> > import posts. or it could also be a caching issue, but we did reset
> > the cache twice.
> >
> > I will see how many post are impacted with a sql query and fix stuff.
>
> So the bad news: "they are everywhere".
>
> The good news is that I got the right SQL syntax. But yeah, a lot of
> the link got "fixed". In fact, there is even some who date back to the
> time the blog was on openshift online v2.
>
> Theer is link for cards, but also internal links, like :
> https://fedoramagazine.org/upcoming-features-in-fedora-31-workstation/
>
> "deeply involved" is not using the right domain name.
>
> So while it can be changed with a SQL query, I am a bit unconfortable
> doing a large scale sql modification without a stage instance for now.
> I will try to do smaller change first, and see if I can at least find
> the cards that got broken.

This was a really good report -- thank you very much, Michael.

Does https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpengine-staging
help at all for the staging you need?

-- 
Paul
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