[wplug] replacing text within full website

Gentgeen gentgeen at linuxmail.org
Wed Jan 7 22:15:12 EST 2004


Just a quick thank you to everyone who replied. Since I haven't moved the server yet, I haven't tried any of your perls of wisedom, but they look like they will do the trick.  I'm gonna try some of them this weekend on a mocked-up directory structure just to give it a shot.

Thank again. 


On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:39:25 -0500
Gentgeen <gentgeen at linuxmail.org> 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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