Change base URL of Magento

Question

I have installed Magento in a server say 123.456.10.129 and copy and paste its files to 123.456.241.82. When I am trying to access Magento from 123.456.241.82its getting redirected to 123.456.10.129. How to change the base URL for Magento? Can I keep the same database for both Magento?

Answer 1

If you would like to run two identical websites from one database on two separate URL's i.e Staging/Production then you can simply override the default base_url in the database by setting the values in local.xml found under app/etc in your secondary server installation.

Under the admin node add the following -

<stores>
    <default>
        <web>
            <unsecure>
                <base_url>http://YOUR.URL.HERE/</base_url>
            </unsecure>
        </web>
    </default>
    <admin>
        <web>
            <unsecure>
                <base_url>http://YOUR.URL.HERE/</base_url>
            </unsecure>
        </web>
    </admin>
</stores>

Hope this helps with your issue.

Answer 2

Do an update in the table core_config_data where the path column is equal to http://123.456.10.129/ (Do not forget the trailing forward slash). Change that to what ever your new IP address is like http://123.456.241.82/ (Again, do not forget the trailing forward slash.

A sample query would be like this.

USE database;

UPDATE core_config_data SET value='http://123.456.241.82/' where value='http://123.456.10.129/';

@Mahan 's answer is correct. But you also need to remove the folders in the var\cache folder and files in the var\session folder. Then just refresh the page.