Magento - How to manually change the base URL / domain?

Question

I did a search for this, but I can only find answers on how to do this through the admin panel (which I cannot achieve).

I have a live Magento installation that I'm going to do a new development into.

So, I am setting up the development site on a subdomain of the main site URL (http://test.mydomain.com)

The problem that I encountered is that somewhere in the boot block of Mage :: run () the site is redirected to the www subdomain.

I changed the following 2 entries in the database:

mysql> select * from core_config_data where value like '%mydomain.com%'; | config_id | scope | scope_id | path | value | +-----------+---------+----------+------------------------+-------------------------------+ | 2 | default | 0 | web/unsecure/base_url | http://test.mydomain.com/ | | 3 | default | 0 | web/secure/base_url | http://test.mydomain.com/ | 

• I also guaranteed that config "local.xml" points to the new dev DB.
• I also deleted all / var / cache
• I also deleted all htaccess subdomain redirects
• I also restarted Apache.

No luck, still redirecting.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

So, it turns out that the problem was that Apache did not have write permissions to the WEBROOT/var directory, so Magento used its cache from the /tmp system directory. (thanks for the tip, Fiasco Labs !)

If someone gets here from Google, I will repeat the steps ...

How to manually change a domain in Magento

• Refresh the core_config_data table to edit the two entries for web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url
• Delete contents WEBROOT/var/cache
• Updating / editing any .htaccess domain redirects you may have added
• Restart apache
• Make sure Apache has write WEBROOT/var in WEBROOT/var
• If you created a new database, make sure that WEBROOT/app/etc/local.xml .
• If you use Chrome, clear your browser cache! (Chrome caches 301s)

What about that. Greetings.

Answer 2

Try using the "FLUSHALL" command on redis-cli, maybe you have a cached database.

It worked for me.