What Magento files could be responsible for redirecting to a previous domain
I'm trying to clone a server. I have my Magento in a subfolder. For the sake of simplicity....
www.domain1.com/store
Cloned to create...
www.domain2.com/store
My managed hosting company (Cloudways) does most of the heavy lifting, but despite following the steps below, I can't figure out why...
www.domain2.com/store Redirects to www.domain1.com/store
I've updated the DNS (even IPaddress/store redirects to domain1.com/store) Made changes to the .htaccess, robots.txt, etc. I've updated the core_config_data table with the new base URLs (www.domain2.com/store). I've cleared the cache and even restarted the server.
I have also done a search for 'domain1.com/store' in all the files and in the database, and the only place I find it is in the following tables.... - catalogsearch_query - core_email_queue - core_session - smtppro_email_log
Which I can't understand why those tables would affect a redirect. Can anyone confirm this? Can anyone suggest some methods or tools to get to the bottom of this.
This is my eighth attempt over three weeks. When I ask my host for help they go ahead and just do the search and replace and I can't replicate their results. It takes them a day to respond and now they are ignoring me. Therefore it's imperative I learn how to do this myself. Please point me in the right direction.
Solutions
I finally got this resolved thanks to 'adiltaj' on fiverr.
The local.xml file in the app/etc had memcached information between two tags that had to be commented out. That solved the problem.
Another user (Fabian Schmengler) also gives this as a possible solution (bullet 1) to a similar question here.