I am trying to set up a staging site to test upgrade my Magento 1.7.0 site to 1.9.2. The end result is that the new site keeps redirecting to the old site, and I cannot determine the cause. Here is what I did.
- turned off caching and flushed the cache on my production site.
- backed up the database using mysqldump
- created a new database and loaded it from the dump using mysql
- created a new directory "magento-1.7.0" next to my production directory "magento"
- copied the production site to the staging site using cp magento/ magento-1.7.0/
- change the unsecure and secure base url's in my new database to match the testing url
- totally forgot to change the database pointers in local.xml and fired up the test site. (it redirected to the production site)
- went and changed the database pointers in local.xml, deleted var/cache in both magento/app and magento-1.7.0/app
Still redirects.
I checked the /tmp directory on the server, there is no magento directory there
I have cleared caches, waited a couple hours to potentially let caches expire, and cleared my browser cache
Still redirects. I use Firefox, and watched the Network stream. The request is for test.mydomain.com, and the location on the response header comes back as www.mydomain.com. What am I missing.
