This might seem a little miniscule, but does anybody know how to manually disable the cache? For instance, I have moved my Magento installation to a different location, and I forgot to disable the cache before I told the db to look at the new location. Consequently, I am unable to get to the admin section to disable to cache. Is there a switch in the db, or are there some cache files that I can delete somewhere?
Turns out the problem for me was foreign key restraints in Magento’s backup files. phpmyadmin didn’t like them on importing. Rather then using phpmyadmin I imported my file from the command line (ssh). This imported the DB successfully and my site loaded up just fine.
that did it for me, too. be shure to use a dumo from the backup function of magento, because dumps from phpMyAdmin will not work because of the foreign key problem…