Comments on: WordPress Uploading Not Working After Moving Host?

By: Patrick Stein

Patrick Stein — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:23:22 +0000

Thank you. I don’t know why this isn’t mentioned more prominently in http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
(and there, only in the section about moving wordpress within your own site but not when moving to a new host).

By: Hashim

Hashim — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:02:57 +0000

Thanks! I thought it would have changed when updating database (as I updated to latest ver. of wordpress when moving to new host) but it was not.

By: Matthew Gore

Matthew Gore — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:45:33 +0000

Just a quick note. When I moved my Wordpress installation to a new folder, I edited the path in the Misc. folder to match the new path, but it never ended up working. I could upload, but the images wouldn’t display.

However, I was using the full path from the server root. I found that if I changed to the relative path ( starting the path with ../ instead of just a / ), that solved the problem completely.

Since I had only moved the blog to another folder on the same server, I should have been able to just change the folder name… not sure why it didn’t work that way!

- Matthew

By: Arto

Arto — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:41:58 +0000

What difference does it make when I add the relative path AND the absolute one? I see some message that the absolute one is optional…

By: Big D

Big D — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:05 +0000

Thanks!! .. I couldn’t figure that out for nothing!!

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upload troubles. @ chad pfarr | 2009 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:51 +0000

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By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:10 +0000

Thanks pal! I was going nuts over this one. It hadn’t dawned on me that I had changed directories since I last uploaded images. I’m left to wonder how many other locations have that old folder name.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:19:45 +0000

Thanks for the tip! This was really helpful, and definitely should be included in the codex article on Moving Wordpress.

By: martin

martin — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:22:27 +0000

this has to be one of the most helpful articles ever on wordpress! thanks man… all the best

By: Culinary Cory

Culinary Cory — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:57:52 +0000

Dude! You totally just saved me a ton of headache. Thanks for writing this article. It was really helpful.