Converting uploads on multisite subdirectory to bedrock

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I’m in the process of converting a large vanilla multisite subdirectory install into a bedrock stack.

Migrating the database is straightforward, but I run into errors with the images within each site. And doing a simple search/replace of /wp-content/ to /app/ does not affect all the sites within the network because that doesn’t contain their site url.

So, has anyone figured out a way to take an img url like below:

http://bicycle.dev/host/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2013/05/bg-host-blue9.jpg

And programmatically convert it to:

   http://krieger.dev/app/uploads/sites/6/2013/05/bg-host-blue9.jpg

Rather than going through the database and running search/replace for each site within the install? (I’m dealing with 50+ sites here…)

Or, is there a way to keep the subdirectory (e.g./host/) within their Bedrock multisite subdirectory install?

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I’m not going to claim to be a Multisite expert (I’m not in any way shape or form), but isn’t a multisite install one single database?

WP-CLI is able to search-replace serialized content in a database, so why would you not be able to run wp search-replace wp-content/ app/ on the entire database?

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Be careful. If the users have blogs that have external hotlinks to other wordpress sites this will break them.

The proper solution here is to combine the output of Redirecting… with http://wp-cli.org/commands/search-replace/

This can be done with a loop in a shell script pretty handily. Make sure to test locally first.

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thanks! i’ll check this out and report back.

just to reiterate it’s not going from example.com/site/wp-content/uploads/ to example.dev/site/app/uploads that i need t o accomplish.

in my bedrock, it seems the /site/ in my url is being removed, by design or my mistake.