Magento redirection problem after moving

Question

I\'ve moved my Magento to another server with another domain name, now it keeps linking me back to the old domain. All files and the entire database has been searched&re

Answer 1

one thing more which people easily forget in such cases. local.xml should also be modified according to the settings of backup database. Otherwise you can edit the base_url and clear the cache thousand times and you will never be directed to the url you desire :)

Answer 2

in my case it's because I forgot to change the db name in app/etc/local.xml

Answer 3

here is your answer:

First step was simple – finding in the database base url value: table name is core_config_data and the keys are /web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url. Change those two to the proper values.

Second step is also very logical – cleanup cache! Magento does cache everything, including values of config table, so go to the Magento root with FTP or SSH, remove everything from the folders var/cache/ and var/session/ and var/tmp. (You can even rename them and create a empty folder in those names).

Hope it helps

Answer 4

In my case it was config with path=payment/wayforpay_payment/merchant which has domain with dots replaced by underscores, e.g. www_yourdomain_com. After I changed it to mynewdomain_com issue was resolved.

Answer 5

This is probably due to the old base url stored in the database table core_config_data. You have to update that values to point to the new domain.

You can update with the following update queries

UPDATE core_config_data SET value="http://www.newdomain.com/" 
WHERE path="web/unsecure/base_url"

to update secure base url

 UPDATE core_config_data SET value="https://www.newdomain.com/" 
 WHERE path="web/secure/base_url"

Answer 6

In my case it was even more strange, on my development instance I had no "temp" folder, the cache was stored somewhere outside of site vhost, or in dB, but not in core_config_data. Only flush cache in Magento BE could help, so better to do it before dB dump.

Best regards.