Stop Joomla from redirecting to livepage!

Question

I got a Live-page (our school's homepage) which I backed up via Akeeba and already restored on my local server which I mage with XAMPP.

Now, when I want to surf my local page through localhost/schulpage/ then it always instantly redirects me to the live-version of my page www.example.com.

The only exception of this is when I surf the back-end localhost/schulpage/administrator.

But as soon as I click on login it redirects me to the backend of my livepage again.

How can I fix this? Already spent hours trying to figure it out but I don't have a clue where it comes from.

What have I already tried?

• .htaccess files first renamed, then deleted -> nothing changed
• config.php checked -> no live-page listed.
• htacess.txt renamed, deleted -> nothing changed
• Checked installed plugins, no obvious plugins installed.

Answer 1

There are several reasons Joomla redirect you to the live site.

1. User plugin - Check if there is any user plugin which redirects user to live site. Try disabling the user plugin under Administrator->Extensions->plugins->select plugin type as user in dropdown
2. Custom module - If you are using any third party then please check it's config setting for user login redirection
3. htaccess - As per your question you already renamed it so it does not cause any trouble.

Answer 2

It could be set in redirect component or in some sort of system tools - like Admin tools. Check extensions installed on your school site.

Answer 3

We had this problem last week with a client. Remove the value of the $live_url from your configuration.php file. This should fix the problem.

So you should have something like:

public $live_site = '';