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

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Taras Ermoshin
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Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux
  • Plesk for Windows

Symptoms

  1. WordPress is installed on the domain example.com on the Plesk server.

  2. The domain example.com is resolved not to the Plesk server - the production version of example.com is working on another server.

  3. On the Plesk server, the domain is created for developing the new version of the website.

  4. On the Plesk server, in the WordPress dashboard of example.com in Settings > General, the options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) are set with https:// - https://example.com.

  5. When accessing the WordPress login page using Plesk website preview at http://203.0.113.2/plesk-site-preview/example.com/203.0.113.2/wp-login.php, it is redirected to the production website https://example.com/wp-login.php.

Cause

The options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) in the WordPress dashboard are set with https://.

Resolution

  1. Edit the hosts file on your PC so the website example.com is loaded from the Plesk server.

  2. Log into the WordPress dashboard of example.com hosted on the Plesk server.

  3. Go to Settings > General.

  4. Change the values of the options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to http://example.com.

  5. Click Save Changes.

Additional information

Website preview is redirected to a website itself instead of a preview

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    Vik

    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 (Edited )

    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

    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:

    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

    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

    @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

    @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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