WordPress localhost site redirect to live site

Question

I have download the code and export the database from server and setup the site on my localhost also I have been changed the home and site URL in wp_options table I am able to login at wp-admin but when I am clicking on the home page it redirect me to live site.

If anyone know the issue please help me.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

You need to replace database URL and directory path while downloading database from 1 provider to other. In your case, I suspect that you have downloaded database directly, without changing URL and directory path.

You need to re-download database. You can simply use "WP Migrate DB" plugin for this. You can find it here

Let me know if you need further assistance...

Answer 2

open your wp-config.php file and add this

define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost/your_wordpress_folder' );  
define( 'WP_HOME',    'http://localhost/your_wordpress_folder' );

then save the file from admin set the permalinks defaults and resave it with %postname%

if not work recreate your htaccess file

Hope it will work for you

Thanks

Answer 3

I had this issue too. I changed the permalink type and reset MAMP. Before resetting MAMP, I changed the web server type from Nginx to Apache in MAMP.