Magento is automatically redirecting to localhost on live server

Question

I have uploaded my website on live server from localhost in magento

and when i m writing the url e.g: http://unbeatablewatches.com it is redirecting to localhost/unbeata

Answer 1

I faced this issue and solved it using following steps.

1. Change base_url

Navigate to the core_config_data table in your database and add your store url to the value column of following path column.

web/secure/base_url
web/secure/base_link_url
web/unsecure/base_url
web/unsecure/base_link_url

2. Clear log entries

Run following SQL query in order to truncate log tables.

TRUNCATE dataflow_batch_export;
TRUNCATE dataflow_batch_import;
TRUNCATE log_customer;
TRUNCATE log_quote;
TRUNCATE log_summary;
TRUNCATE log_summary_type;
TRUNCATE log_url;
TRUNCATE log_url_info;
TRUNCATE log_visitor;
TRUNCATE log_visitor_info;
TRUNCATE log_visitor_online;
TRUNCATE report_viewed_product_index;
TRUNCATE report_compared_product_index;
TRUNCATE report_event;
TRUNCATE index_event;