Redirection issue after website duplication with Magento 2

Question

I'm currently working a Magento 2 (2.1.14 exactly) mutli-store website and I have some problems for create a development website. I'm the only back-end developer in the company and had never work on Magento 2 before so I'm learning little by little how does it works.

We need to upgrade the Magento version, some plugins and add some functionnalities but I really need to have a clean development setup to work in, without the fear to break the production website.

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Problem ⚠️

Current mode : developer

I followed these steps below but the dev website (dev.mywebsite.ch) still redirect me on the production server (www.mywebsite.ch).

1. Create folder on server dev.website.ch
2. Create a sub-domain and point to the newly created folder
3. Copy all files and folders in it with rsync -avz source/* dest/
4. Create a database dump filedump.sql
5. Clean the dump file (advice from MgtCommerce) like sed "s/\/\*[^\/]*DEFINER.*\*\///" dump.sql > clean_dump.sql
6. Import the dump file in the suitable DB
7. Change the database detail in app/etc/env.php
8. Change base URL and base secure URL in core_config_data table in the dev database

I also executed all commands I use when I want to upload a new thing/bug fix (SSH) :

• chmod 775 /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/*/ -R
• php bin/magento setup:di:compile
• php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_US fr_FR de_DE
• php bin/magento cache:flush
• php bin/magento cache:clean

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Questions I used...

• How to make a copy of my magento site to my computer
• How duplicate your live store on a development store and try installation on it in advance

Answer 1

Cache

Try running the below commands

rm -rf var/cache var/view_preprocessed var/page_cache generated/* pub/static/frontend
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

This should solve your problem

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SSL

If SSL isn't enabled on your development domain, make sure to use http:// in all core_config_data table entries (and not https://)

Answer 2

the redirect problem was due to magento cache.

try to deleted everything from var/ folder for your magento site(dev.website.ch). after that you cleared your browser's cache/cookies or try with private browser for good measure & it worked!