Images are not working after migration.

I’m trying to migrate a blog from mydomain.com to mydomain.com/blog but the images paths are broken, they point to /content/images instead of /blog/content/images even if I add subdir option in config.js -> paths. Also the usage of absolute=“true” when posting the image does not change anything.

I’ve tracked the cause of this and here is where I’m at:

core/config/url.js/181
if (context === 'image' && data.image) {
    // here absolute is true

    urlPath = data.image;
    imagePathRe = new RegExp('^' + ghostConfig.paths.subdir + '/' + ghostConfig.paths.imagesRelPath);
    absolute = imagePathRe.test(data.image) ? absolute : false;

    // but after the RegEx it will be false as in DB the path of the images does not contain
    // subdir because the blog was previously on the root of the domain

    secure = data.image.secure;
    if (absolute) {
        urlPath = urlPath.replace(new RegExp('^' + ghostConfig.paths.subdir), '');
        baseUrl = getBaseUrl(secure).replace(/\/$/, '');
        urlPath = baseUrl + urlPath;
    }

    return urlPath;
}

Also if I comment out the last line return urlPath; the script will go next to return createUrl(urlPath, absolute, secure); and this will return the correct urls for my images.

I’d appreciate any help on this. Thank you.

[ErisDS]

@deiucanta That won’t work because you’ll get double subdirectories for all future uploads and any other items where the subdirectory is accounted for.

This is a one-time migration issue, you need to fix your bad data, as @cobbspur described, and then everything will work fine.

[ErisDS]

When you upload an image, Ghost writes a relative path for your image to the database image or markdown fields. You have changed what the correct relative path is, any links you created would also be broken in the same way. Ghost does not know that you have changed this and it does not doctor the text content of posts in any way.

Going through and fixing this is a necessary part of migrating between a subdirectory and non-subdirectory install. There may be some tools out there to help cc @cobbspur, but this is expected behaviour and not a bug.