If access WordPress login page using website preview, it is redirected to the original website

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  Vik July 05, 2018 19:43

  If we cant login to wordpress's control panel, we can not access to the WordPress dashboard Settings > General section.

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  Ivan Postnikov July 06, 2018 21:23 (Edited July 17, 2018 09:32)

  Hello @Vik, in this article WordPress control panel is accessible.

  Could you, please, share the details, is there any error message shown for you?

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  Vik July 07, 2018 12:26

  sorry, I understood that you can not access Wordpress Dashboard when you tried to sign in.

  Example: you try to access to your preview website in this url:

  • "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/plesk-site-preview/example.com/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/wp-login.php
  • Try to login with your username and password
  • Finally you cant access or redirect to "http://example.com" domain

  I found a easy solution adding this line into the wp-config.php file (before mysql section)

  • define('RELOCATE',true); 

  This is good for me

  Now, I can login to my preview site in plesk and login to Wordpress Dashboard

  I hope this can help others

   

   

   

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  Mario July 23, 2018 03:27

  Hi, 

  Disable https in the live site is not an option: 1) obvious security reasons 2) Google ranking and 3) Google alert of unsafe website (as per July 1st 2018).

  Any workaround?

  Thanks

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  Taras Ermoshin July 31, 2018 14:23

  @Mario Hi!

  This article is devoted to a WordPress website on Plesk which is under development while the production website is working on another server. The article was updated accordingly.

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  Taras Ermoshin July 31, 2018 14:34

  @Vik Hello!

  As I mentioned above, this article is about a WordPress website on Plesk which is under development while the production website is working on another server. While in the WordPress documentation https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL , it is stated that the RELOCATE option is intended to be used when the whole website is moved to another server.

  Additionally, I tried using this option on the test WordPress installation, and the URL wasn't changed to the one with http:// both in WP interface and database when I accessed the login page using http://example.com/wp-login.php.

   

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  Mario October 07, 2018 18:17

  Hi guys, 

  @Vik, define('RELOCATE',true);  worked perfectly for me, thanks!

  If WP-admin is not accessible, just make the change 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!

   

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  Robert Asilbekov October 08, 2018 04:04

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

  Regarding "define('RELOCATE',true);" consider the following: 

  == https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

  Important! Leaving the RELOCATE constant in your wp-config.php file is insecure, as it allows an attacker to change your site URL to anything they want in some configurations. Always remove the RELOCATE line from wp-config.php after you're done.

  ==

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