GIT and Development URL's point to production

I am experimenting with GIT for version control. I have a production environment that I created a repo for HERE, then did a git clone locally. I created/modified the wp-config to work with my local DB. The index page loads, but all of the links for any pages or post point to the production URLs.

How can I make this so running the local instance allows me to browse to all the local pages/posts?

Topic github git Wordpress

Category Web

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Besides doing the find and replace on the domain as saved in the site's database, you'll also want to either:

  • ignore and remove the wp-config.php file from your git repo (so that the local development instance database connection info doesn't keep overwriting the server's and vice versa), or
  • add some environment specific configuration (can be a conditional statement in the wp-config, but better yet- should be a call to check for the existence of and use an external database config file whose name matches the environment)
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My preferred method is to use WP CLI's search-replace command to swap out domains in my local site. If I have example.com on my live site, I'll use example.local on my local install, so the command to fix URLs on the dev site would be:

wp search-replace example.com example.local
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I would use WP DB Migrate to export the DB in the production environment. It allows you to rewrite URLs. Then you import that in your local DB.

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