Manually Change Base URL
When moving a Magento ecommerce website to a new server, you may need to access the shopping cart website and backend administration on a temporary development url. To manually change the Magento Commerce base url to the new development url:
- open the magento ecommerce database in PHPMyAdmin
- browse the database table ‘core_config_data’
- locate the field ‘web/unsecure/base_url’ and click ‘Edit’ to open it for editing
- change the ‘value’ field to the new development domain url
- click ‘Go’
- Close PHPMyAdmin
- Open the ‘Var>Cache’ with FTP, file manager or SSH
- Delete all the content
Your Magento ecommerce website will now work on the new development url.
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