I recently copied over my live site along with database to my WAMP folder and now every time I try to get to the Backend, it redirects me to the homepage. I'm curious if there is something in the database that I have to change. I had to rewrite the core_config_data /base_url in order to get it to stop redirecting to the live site when I typed Localhost and I'm curious if it's an entry in my database that is causing it to reroute to the local Frontend. I've tried localhost/admin localhost/index.php/admin and others. Let me know if any code would help answer the question.
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Have you flushed your local cache – pzirkind Apr 11 '13 at 19:10
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How would I flush local cache without access to admin section? – jonullberg Apr 11 '13 at 19:23
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go to the folder where the magento installation is, then go to var/cache and delete all of its contents – pzirkind Apr 11 '13 at 20:25
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Right, I knew that. Yes I've done that and I still get the same problem. – jonullberg Apr 11 '13 at 20:28
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It might be a cookie issue see:rhogue.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/… – pzirkind Apr 11 '13 at 20:33
If you are being redirected, the question is, does magento anything or is it the apache.
Apache
- check whether the index.php is called (just put a die in it and check whether the redirect still occurs)
- check your
.htaccess
for any unwanted redirects - Check your VHost settings
Magento
- check your
app/etc/local.xml
what the admin path is in the nodeadmin/routers/adminhtml/args/frontName
- check for a admin url in
core_config_data
or thelocal.xml
for the nodesadmin/url/use_custom
(has to be 1) andadmin/url/custom
for the url
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Ok, so my frontName is
<![CDATA[admin]]>
and I can't find an admin URL incore_config_data
or inadmin/url/use_custom
inlocal.xml
. I think this might be the problem, but I'm curious as to how to fix it. Can I add those nodes in thelocal.xml
and it will update? – jonullberg Apr 18 '13 at 0:30 -
If there is nothing, then there is a fallback to the secure/unsecure base url – Fabian Blechschmidt Apr 18 '13 at 9:41
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Did you check whether the redirect is from magento or apache? – Fabian Blechschmidt Apr 18 '13 at 9:42
Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.
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Tried that, used 127.0.0.1/admin and it didn't work. It gives me a 503 error. 127.0.0.1/ localhost/ and localhost/admin all send me back to 127.0.0.1/ – jonullberg Apr 11 '13 at 19:05
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I found maintanence.flag.bak in my main folder, should I delete this? – jonullberg Apr 11 '13 at 19:22
Also you can make virtual host entry in your host file. you can find that file at Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Open this file in notepad.
Make a new entry
127.0.0.1 localhost.com
Now instead of 127.0.0.1 use localhost.com (or any other name that you specify)
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I already have that set up, both 127.0.0.1 and localhost go to my WAMP server, the problem is trying to get to the admin section of the site. If I do localhost/admin, it goes back to the frontend homepage, if I do 127.0.0.1/admin, it gives me an error page. – jonullberg Apr 18 '13 at 0:25