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Message #43892
[Bug 1717379] [NEW] Tool to update URLs to internal artefacts etc. in text boxes
Public bug reported:
Data in text boxes is stored serialized. Thus, when wanting to make
changes, it's not as straight forward as simply replacing an old URL
with a new URL. Changes are necessary when an institution moves to a new
URL for its Mahara site. Any images that have been placed into text
boxes, description fields, journal entries, i.e. anything with TinMCE
will have full URLs listed. The wwwroot part of them will need to be
changed for the new URL. However, since the image was not embedded via
the image block but as an image within text, Mahara doesn't re-write the
URL automatically.
The same applies to links to other artefacts, pages or collections in a
text box.
Thus, a tool would be nice in for the "text" plugin where an admin can
provide the old wwwroot and the new one - the latter already pre-filled
- and can then automatically convert all serialized data in one go
rather than needing to adapt an upgrade script.
An easy site admin tool would be beneficial as this query had come up
recently a few times and many Mahara instances will need to move from
http to https and change links so that there aren't any mixed-content
warnings.
For more info, please see
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8031#post32261
See bug #1717380 for the query around relative vs. absolute paths.
** Affects: mahara
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Confirmed
** Description changed:
Data in text boxes is stored serialized. Thus, when wanting to make
changes, it's not as straight forward as simply replacing an old URL
with a new URL. Changes are necessary when an institution moves to a new
URL for its Mahara site. Any images that have been placed into text
boxes, description fields, journal entries, i.e. anything with TinMCE
will have full URLs listed. The wwwroot part of them will need to be
changed for the new URL. However, since the image was not embedded via
the image block but as an image within text, Mahara doesn't re-write the
URL automatically.
The same applies to links to other artefacts, pages or collections in a
text box.
Thus, a tool would be nice in for the "text" plugin where an admin can
provide the old wwwroot and the new one - the latter already pre-filled
- and can then automatically convert all serialized data in one go
rather than needing to adapt an upgrade script.
+ An easy site admin tool would be beneficial as this query had come up
+ recently a few times and many Mahara instances will need to move from
+ http to https and change links so that there aren't any mixed-content
+ warnings.
+
For more info, please see
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8031#post32261
+
+ See bug #1717380 for the query around relative vs. absolute paths.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717379
Title:
Tool to update URLs to internal artefacts etc. in text boxes
Status in Mahara:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Data in text boxes is stored serialized. Thus, when wanting to make
changes, it's not as straight forward as simply replacing an old URL
with a new URL. Changes are necessary when an institution moves to a
new URL for its Mahara site. Any images that have been placed into
text boxes, description fields, journal entries, i.e. anything with
TinMCE will have full URLs listed. The wwwroot part of them will need
to be changed for the new URL. However, since the image was not
embedded via the image block but as an image within text, Mahara
doesn't re-write the URL automatically.
The same applies to links to other artefacts, pages or collections in
a text box.
Thus, a tool would be nice in for the "text" plugin where an admin can
provide the old wwwroot and the new one - the latter already pre-
filled - and can then automatically convert all serialized data in one
go rather than needing to adapt an upgrade script.
An easy site admin tool would be beneficial as this query had come up
recently a few times and many Mahara instances will need to move from
http to https and change links so that there aren't any mixed-content
warnings.
For more info, please see
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8031#post32261
See bug #1717380 for the query around relative vs. absolute paths.
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