Title: Access Remote WordPress Install from localhost
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Access Remote WordPress Install from localhost

 *  [John Luetke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnl1479/)
 * (@johnl1479)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-remote-wordpress-install-from-localhost/)
 * I have a live WordPress environment running on a website. I use my local machine
   to develop the site and make changes to it before deploying it live. While trying
   to open wordpress/index.php, I am able to connect to the database, but somewhere
   between loading wp-config and displaying the site, the loading URI gets changed
   from localhost to the domain that the site is running on.
 * My goal is to be able to be able to have a copy of my WordPress install running
   on the local machine with access to the MySQL database that runs on the remote
   server.
 * Is this possible? How?
 * (the DB_HOST in wp-config has already been modified to not say ‘localhost’, the
   the DNS location of the MySQL server)

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-remote-wordpress-install-from-localhost/#post-649406)
 * _Is this possible? How?_
    No, it isn’t.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-remote-wordpress-install-from-localhost/#post-649406)
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