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Description of my issue:
Hi - to support further development and testing of our site, we restored a backup of our current live Joomla site to a local desktop MAMP Pro 4.1 server. Restore worked fine and we can access the Joomla Administrator component and backend on the desktop MAMP 'localhost'. The problem we have is that when we browse to the front-end, 'localhost' the site just redirects to the live site 'https://mylivesite.com'. In attempting to remedy this we have:
1.) turned off SEF Friendly URLs
2.) disabled the .htaccess file
3.) checked the Akeeba Admin Tools feature to disable 'Redirect www and non-www addresses'
4.) removed the Hostname from the System Configuration in the Admin Tools .htaccess maker
5.) created a new .htaccess file from the Akeeba Admin Tools with setting above
Both with and without the .htaccess, a browser request to 'localhost' continues to redirect to the live site. We have checked that all browser caches etc. have been cleared and we've removed any SEO related extensions and checked the Template for mods. We've been unable to locate anything that might be causing the site to redirect. Our remaining thought is that possibly some of the full, live-site, URL information is held within the database.
We appreciate this is probably not a direct Akeeba Admin/Backup problem but we'd welcome any advice you might have to help us understand how to prevent the 'localhost' copy redirecting to the 'live-site'.
Many thanks.
Martin..