A WordPress website redirects to the main website URL instead of preview when opening in Plesk Site Preview

• 

  Mario October 07, 2018 18:07

  Hi Plesk,

  When using the preview (assuming it's a newly deployed website, therefore no "Redirection" plugins will/should be present), what is supposed to be done is to change siteurl & home in "wp_options" in phpMyAdmin:

  

  to Plesk's preview URL:

  

  Also, when the site is migrated, check wp-config.php, as sometimes they contain:

  define('WP_HOME','https://www.example.com');

  define('WP_SITEURL','https://www.example.com');

  Do open the preview URL in incognito mode/other browser, as sometimes the cache will still redirect to main URL

  Result:

  

  Hope it helps!

  0

  Comment actions Permalink
• 

  Robert Asilbekov October 08, 2018 04:13 (Edited October 08, 2018 04:14)

  @Mario Proposed workaround will change all links to the Plesk preview URL.

   

  0

  Comment actions Permalink
• 

  Mario October 08, 2018 12:34

  @Robert, 

  That is correct, otherwise the website will not work properly (i.e. CSS will not load). What other solution would you suggest?

  Thanks

  0

  Comment actions Permalink
• 

  Robert Asilbekov October 11, 2018 04:54

  @Mario 

  At the moment there is no viable solution. However, we have a feature request so you may vote for the feature, add your own vision and participate in the discussion by referring to the link:  

  https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestions/33777442-wordpress-toolkit-url-switch-main-url-previ

   

  0

  Comment actions Permalink
• 

  Keith Mohr December 03, 2020 23:22

  It would be great to be able to log into your WordPress Admin before your DNS propagates so you can test it and update plugs, etc. I dont see any way to make this happen. Im on Amazon AWS hosting

  0

  Comment actions Permalink

Please sign in to leave a comment.