[wp-hackers] Absolute vs. relative URLs

[Burobjorn]

I agree with Leonid absolute urls being a nuisance and felt the same 
pain with the deployment of some of my clients' sites.

Perhaps somebody can explain the benefits of using absolute urls instead 
of relative ones? I would be willing to help out with making urls into 
relative ones, but would like to know first what the arguments are for 
using absolute ones.

grtz
BjornW


Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> It seems that quite a few people suggested to use relative URLs in
> WordPress instead of absolute.  I've even seen some patches here and
> there (Trac).  But the status of the issue is not clear.
> 
> What is happening with this?
> 
> Absolute URLs is about the biggest problem in our
> development/deployment process for our customer's web sites.  Since
> most of them already have web sites online, we can't develop under the
> target domain.  We use a different host instead, and after everything
> is done and ready, we have to change the 'home' and 'siteurl' values
> in wp_options, 'guid' in wp_posts, and do a search-and-replace through
> the text of all pre-set posts and pages ('About us', 'Contact us', and
> whatever else the customer might have requested).
> 
> While we managed to somewhat automate the process, it's still error
> prone and doesn't work very well in some situations, such as, for
> example, several domains per web site.
>