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&replaced to ensure references are gone. Cache got removed. I suspect it still tries to use the old database so i modified the local.xml file containing the DB info but that doesn’t change anything. Since there is no cache does anyone have any idea what goas wrong?

Answer 1

Apparently Magento used the ‘temp’ directory in the server-root for caching as well.
cleaning this would solve the issue. This is of course also taken care of when rebooting the server.

Make sure your webserver has write access to the var, var/cache and var/tmp folder in your magento installation.
Try using chmod -R 700 var or chmod -R 766 (use the latter with caution).

NOTE: This is the result of not having your file/directory permissions properly set. Magento tries to use var/cache and var/tmp, finds them unwritable by the web server user and proceeds to move its cache to the system /tmp folder. No matter how much you curse and change the BaseURL settings and erase anything you find in var/cache, Magento continues to read the cached configuration out of the system /tmp folder.

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