[wplug] replacing text within full website

[Joseph Greenawlt]

This might help you:

http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/2003/linux.ars-11112003-2.html


Gentgeen wrote:

>First for the background info -- 
>
>I have been working on a new website for the school that I teach at. 
>The work has been done on a headless machine named KINGPIN within my
>home network.  KINGPIN has 2 nics, one set to get its address via a DHCP
>and the other has a static IP for my home network.  KINGPIN is a little
>machine, 120MHZ, 64MB RAM - not exactly a production server.  I'm
>getting ready to take it into work and set it up internally (not for
>production yet, just local access) so other teachers and admin can have
>a look, help proof-read, offer suggestions, etc.  
>
>Now for the questions --
>
>1)  I'm thinking that I can take it in, plug the ethernet cable into the
>nic setup for DHCP, get the IP from the school network, and be off and
>running serving the webpages.  Does anyone see any problems with that? 
>Will I need to change any setting?  Should I turn on/off any particular
>services?  I really don't want to cause any problems with the school
>network.  The sys-admin and I are friend, I want to keep it that way.
>:-)
>
>2)  When I do move it to production, I will need to change any of the
>links on the webpages from "http://kingpin/" to "http://www.foo.bar"  I
>tried my best to keep them to a minimum, but a few cgi scripts need full
>URL links.  the website consists of the servers root directory
>(/var/www/html/) and 5 sub-directories.  Spread throughout are about
>15-20 links that would need changed.  Of course I could go though and
>check every page, then change them by hand with a little help from
>'bluefish' and 'find...replace' action.  But I was wondering if anyone
>knew of an easier way.  My guess is some kind of script with using
>'grep'.  My script writing skills reflect my DOS BATCH file days, and I
>have not had the easiest time learning to master grep, so I would
>appreciate any help you can give me.
>
>Once things go public, I'll be sure to give you all credit, and the URL
>so you can see the work.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Kevin 
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