WordPress – relative image path

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I have blog on www.mydomain.com
however, I wanted to move it on www.mydomain.com/blog
In some posts I have images embedded like:
< img src=”/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image.jpg” style=”height: 200px; float: left; margin: 10px” >

But when I move it to www.mydomain.com/blog these photos surely won’t display cause the photo will be in:
www.mydomain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image.jpg and this src will mean that it’s in www.mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image.jpg, what is not true.

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How can I set the relatives paths of these photos so that after changing the destination of my blog they still will be displayed?

Greetings!

edit:
stackoverflow cut html tags so I wrote them once again, sorry

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  2. this is an old post but I answer anyway, because it can help someone else.

    First, you in fact asked how to make relative paths: but that’s not a good thing, for a couple of reasons:

    1 not good for search engines: that’s because you end up with a resource that is not unique
    2 not good for plugins: that’s because the thing can generate compatibility problems

    I found that its probably better (faster and doesn’t require plugins) do a find&replace via SQL, since it’s a really simple command:

    update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content,'http://localhost:8888','new domain')

    I had the problem that I develop sites locally.
    Here’s a ‘for dummies’ explanation of the command. With this command, you simply say:

    1 go to table named wp_posts (the table where wordpress saves all kind of posts and pages)

    2 take a look to the post_content column (the column that contains the post contents)

    3 replace any string that is like ‘http://localhost:8888’ with ‘new domain’ (well, not ‘new domain’ literally, instead, your domain)

    That’s all. You can do this in phpMyAdmin: click on the sql tab and type in the sql.
    It’s quite hard to do it wrong, but anyway, always make a backup of the database first.

    hope it helps.

    P.s.
    As said, the original question could be a sort of duplicate, but not exaclty, since it’s about relative paths, not path substitution. This answer instead, can in fact answer the ‘duplicated’ question. But I posted it here to take the people who (as me some time ago) wants relative paths and don’t know thei’re not good, to the right fix of the problem.