Cannot find and replace old links stored by VC

Hi @filipmedia

When migrating the site, you can use a plugin such as duplicator to migrate from one domain to another. You can check our migration tutorial here: https://visualcomposer.com/help/faq/how-to-move-a-website-from-temporary-dev-to-final-live-url/

I will remember this for in the future but in my case i migrated almost a year ago and I didn’t even realize that some links were not replaced, until now when the old domain has expired and i noticed a completely broken website.

There must be something that I can do now to fix this?

Hi,

In that case, you can check for any search and replace plugin to search the old url and replace it with the new one.
Once done, you can then reset the plugin as per: https://visualcomposer.com/help/settings/reset/ to activate it’s license again: https://visualcomposer.com/help/visual-composer-hub/premium-activation/

I tried to search and replace through plugins, also directly from phpmyadmin and also via wpcli command. Nothing helps. I even downloaded the whole database, opened it in notepad++ and search for the old domain but its not there.

That is because VC either stores those urls somewhere else, like in hardcore files on the server, or because the urls are encrypted so i cant find them in the database.

So search and replace plugins will not work unfortunately.

Hi,

The Visual Composer does not encrypt the urls.
Can you please open a ticket via our support portal: https://visualcomposer.com/support and share your temporary login details in it, so that the support team can investigate it further to guide you with the same.