WordPress featured image url is using absolute host path and adding an extra / causing page to break. Why is this happening?

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I migrated a site from my testing server to the live server. Everything transferred normally only the featured images are broken and not displaying. The URL’s are being rendered incorrectly even if i re-upload the image.

the testing server is http://dave-conner.com

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the live server is http://qmpdirect.com

the page where the issue is happening on is http://qmpdirect.com/cpap-kits/

the first image path should be:
http://qmpdirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/sleepstyle600-37440_184x184.jpg

but is instead rendering as:
/home/content/28/9036828/html//wp-content/uploads/2012/02/sleepstyle600-37440_184x184.jpg

If anyone can tell me why this is happening and how i can fix it I would greatly appreciate it. I have been banging my head against the wall for a while now.

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  2. Found the problem. The location of the temporary files in the database was still set to the absolute hosting path of the old server. Once i changed this to the absolute hosting path of the live server the problem was corrected. I’m still not sure why this caused the image to break since wordpress moves these images to permanent folders but…problem solved.

  3. Had same issue, solved by David Conner solution.
    Details of how I solved:

    • with phpmyadmin, go to wp_options table
    • on page 4 (with default pagination of 30rows/page) you will find an option named et_images_temp_folderwith theoption_id = 154`
    • replace option_value with your new absolute server path

    • example of executed query:

      UPDATE  `yourdatabase`.`wp_options` 
SET `option_value` = '/home/yourwebsite/public_html/wp-content/uploads/et_temp'
WHERE `wp_options`.`option_id` = 154;