Title: WordPress local installation problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress local installation problem

 *  Resolved [omniafausta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omniafausta/)
 * (@omniafausta)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/)
 * Hi,
 * Hope someone can help me with the following.
    For a client I need to make a few
   changes on his WordPress site. The site so far has been done by someone else,
   so I wanted to install the site locallay (with MAMP) to test some stuff without
   messing up the live site.
 * I have done this before without problems, but now when i got to local:8888/sitename
   it redirects to local/sitename where of course it cannot find the site.
 * Any ideas as to why this happens and how to resolve this??
 * thanks!!

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 *  Thread Starter [omniafausta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omniafausta/)
 * (@omniafausta)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974087)
 * okay, I thought it might be an .htaccess issue, so I turned my invisable files
   on visible, turns out the .htaccess file didn’t come along when I downloaded 
   the files.
    So I downloaded the .htaccess, and without changing anything there,
   now going to local:8888/sitename in firefox results in going to the live site,
   and in Safari it looked to be going alright.
 * So I thought: okay I’ll work in Safari… BUT…
    when I tried to log in local:8888/
   sitename/wp-admin), it went to the live site as well…
 * hope anyone has a tip?
 *  Anonymous User 12954455
 * (@anonymized-12954455)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974088)
 * Hi,
 * Have you imported the database directly to your local machine from the production
   site? The URL’s will still be pointing to the live site and not localhost if 
   that’s the case.
 * Regards,
 * Dylan
 *  Thread Starter [omniafausta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omniafausta/)
 * (@omniafausta)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974091)
 * okay, found it (somewhere on the forum, sorry lost the link)
 * But in phpmyadmin in the table wp_options I had to change the URL in both siteurl
   and home.
 * Looks like it works now….
 *  Thread Starter [omniafausta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omniafausta/)
 * (@omniafausta)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974092)
 * and thanks Dylan, just saw your post, and indeed that was the case… took me a
   while to find where to edit that, but found it
 *  Anonymous User 12954455
 * (@anonymized-12954455)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974103)
 * Your welcome glad I could help!

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## Tags

 * [local install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/local-install/)
 * [MAMP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mamp/)

 * In: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-local-installation-problem-1/#post-4974103)
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