Wordpress on a local machine redirecting to online url

i've downloaded a wordpress web to my local machine and tried setting it up. the problem: when trying to login, wordpress will always redirect to the online url. the only way i found was changing the siteurl manually in phpmyadmin to my local machine's ip address. is there a better solution? the problem about doing that is that permalinks won't work anymore locally.

thanks

Topic local-installation Wordpress

Category Web

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Open up your wp-config.php file

Try adding the following to it: 

define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost/your_wordpress_folder' );  
define( 'WP_HOME',    'http://localhost/your_wordpress_folder' );
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If I understand right you had restored backup of live site to local installation?

Basically you have two ways to handle it:

  1. Change site URL (I recommend RELOCATE way, always works nicely for me).

  2. Use hosts file of your OS to point live domain at your local IP (127.0.0.1).

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