The database uses that url for the siteurl and i’ve defined it in the config file. Also the dev site is using our dev database.

The issue is that even though the site loads, the images are broken. If I investigate on the front end with chrome inspector, the image URLs are using the tempURL but if I change the root to watershedgeo.com, leaving wp-content/uploads path intact, the pictures load properly. I’ve tried the velvet plugin to do a search and replace but doesn’t seem to work

This is just for development so if I could just get the pictures to load that way, by changing the root of the url, i could do waht I need to do.

To fix this, try going to your live /wp-content/uploads/ and copying /uploads/ over to /dev.watershedgeo.com/wp-content/uploads/ again (replacing all images).

Does this work for you?