Magento: Transfer from live to local

Question

I'm making my development backup of the live Magento website, so far I did the following:

• created mywebsite.local virtual host
• copied all files from live server to local machine
• imported dump database
• changed the etc/local.xml database parameters
• replaced all rows in core_config_data containing mywebsite.com into mywebsite.local
• deleted all contents under VAR

The thing is - when I go to mywebsite.local it redirects me to mywebsite.com. This happens in the index.php file, exactly on the Mage::run line. I tried turning off all htaccess rewrite rules, it doesn't help so that's not the problem.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The Magento cache also needs to be flushed, it can be done using the following script

 require_once 'app/Mage.php';
 $app = Mage::app();

  echo "<pre>";
  if($app != null) {
       echo "The app was initialized.\n";
       $cache = $app->getCache();
       if($cache != null) {
               echo "The cache is not empty. Clean it.\n";
               $cache->clean();
        }  
   } 

Answer 2

You need to make sure that you changed all the urls in the core_config_data table. the url values can be stored multiple times.

Do a db query like this to make sure you get them all

SELECT * FROM `core_config_data` WHERE `path` LIKE '%base_url%'

Also check you .htaccess file to make sure you are not rewriting requests to the old url

Answer 3

go to your local host database and go to core_config_data change base url to your localhost url