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Asked: 2026-05-17T16:31:36+00:00

I want to create another instance of magento for development purposes. I’ve copied the

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I want to create another instance of magento for development purposes.

I’ve copied the site and the database and changed the connction string for the database.

However, when I go to log in to magento it re-directs to the live site http://www.example.com rather than going to the test url test.example.com.

Both instances exist on the same box.

After a bit of digging arund I think I need to change the root_dir, but not sure where to change this.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Tom

— Edit —

I’ve updated the two fields in question in the database, but all urls still point to the production environment.

Do I have to run a specific script to update all of these across the whole site?

— Edit 2 —

There was more than one instance of the two urls in the table, after updating these and deleting the cache and sessions directories from the var folder everything worked.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to edit the database table “core_config_data”. Look for records with a path of “web/secure/base_url” or “web/unsecure/base_url” and you will see where to change the URL. You may need to clear the cache.
    You don’t need to change root_dir after all since that is automatic.

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