I’m testing a full restore of my live magento site to a temp server. I backed up the full /magento/ folder excluding cached dirs etc into a tar package. I restore the files and database to my temp server but whenever I try and load the site I get the error

Can’t retrieve entity config: core/store_group

I’m pulling my hair out because I can’t identify where the problem is, base urls are set correctly but this error seems to be happening before the DB connect, if I set the local.xml connect credentials to rubbish the error still appears. A google search bought me here and I wondered if you could shed anymore light on it?

You can see the problem temporarily i.e. today 21.07.2010 here.

http://ec2-184-72-23-67.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/

I’ve set everything up on our server, front-end is working perfectly, everything is behaving as it should. The only problem that I have is that whenever I try to access the Magento admin panel, it directs me to our live-site admin URL, instead of the staging admin URL.

I’ve refreshed all caches, checked all settings for this extension in comparison to the post, can’t seem to narrow down the problem though.

Any ideas on what the cause of this can be?

Also, you’ll need to make sure that if you do this, that your webhost has ‘mod_env’ enabled, you can check this, by using phpinfo().

Regarding the SetEnv MAGENTO_DEVURLS /path/to/urls.ini

..dose any one have an idea where the ‘Apache Config’ folder is located?

My ‘staging’ site is located on a subdomain of our web site, hosted with a web hosting company and cPanel is our file manager.

No where in our ‘home directory’ can we find the ‘Apache’ ‘Config’ folder in which we think we include the … SetEnv MAGENTO_DEVURLS /path/to/urls.ini some where with-in.

Do we need to create these folders? Where about is the …urls.ini line entered?

Any help / clarification about this would be grate and very much appreciated.

Thanks