If access WordPress login page using website preview, it is redirected to the original website

Symptoms

1. WordPress is installed on the domain example.com on the Plesk server.

2. The domain example.com is resolved not to the Plesk server – the production version of example.com is working on another server.

3. On the Plesk server, the domain is created for developing the new version of the website.

4. On the Plesk server, in the WordPress dashboard of example.com in Settings > General, the options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) are set with https:// – https://example.com.

5. When accessing the WordPress login page using Plesk website preview at http://203.0.113.2/plesk-site-preview/example.com/203.0.113.2/wp-login.php, it is redirected to the production website https://example.com/wp-login.php.

Cause

The options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) in the WordPress dashboard are set with https://.

Resolution

1. Edit the hosts file on your PC so the website example.com is loaded from the Plesk server.

2. Log into the WordPress dashboard of example.com hosted on the Plesk server.

3. Go to Settings > General.

4. Change the values of the options WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to http://example.com.

5. Click Save Changes.

Additional information

[FIXED BUG] Website preview URL is automatically redirected to the main website URL