Rebuild image links after moving from subdomain to subdirectory

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We are moving our Ghost set up from a subdomain to a subdirectory. This seemed pretty easy as just updating the config.production.json for the new URL of the blog.

However the existing images in the articles are now broken.

How can I programmatically update the /content/images/ path to its correct location in the stories?

Is there a way to rebuild or migrate the articles/stories so that we can do it with the ghost cli? We have a couple 100s of these to work through for example.

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Solution:

Did not find any documentation, for this but this is how we got this to work:

  1. Edit the config.production.json file to update the new URL of your blog

  2. Make a dump of the DB and replace the paths. For example, from this SO answer.

    Dump the database to a text file

    mysqldump -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] > dumpfilename.sql

    Restore the database after you have made changes to it.

    mysql -u root -p[root_password] [database_name] < dumpfilename.sql

  3. Next restart the instance.

Alternate solution (did not try, but may work):

  1. Export the data as a json in the admin ui > Labs.
  2. Edit for changes.
  3. Reset your instance.
  4. Import the json.
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For that sort of things, I’d recommend to rewrite your urls using ngix (unless your website hasn’t gone live yet).

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Yes, while that could work for some scenarios. The existing images failed to load due to internal relative linking.

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