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I recently set up a live WordPress site on my local environment through Duplicator. I can access the wp-admin but I cannot access the main site as wp redirects the site from http to https automatically. I checked the .htaccess, but no luck. I checked the wp_options table and it has an entry of the site with http not https. Can you tell what seems to be the problem and what files should I be looking at? Thanks.

Edit: I cleaned the browser cache (even ran it on incognito), still no luck.

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  • Which browser, which version, and how exactly is the local URL you access the site with?
    – leymannx
    Commented Dec 21, 2017 at 20:35
  • Also: Did you try different browsers?
    – leymannx
    Commented Dec 21, 2017 at 20:36
  • You can go to the db and update the site in the options table to first remove https, then investigate options to simulate a cert locally, some simple steps to follow here, but only on your local machine: really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/…
    – Nathaniel Flick
    Commented Dec 20, 2018 at 20:45
  • I tried all the above; nothing workden. In my case some plugin was probably causing this. Only when i disabled the complete Plugin folder (by renaming it to 0_Plugins) the site came up. Now I have to manually figure out which of the plugins was causing this. Thanks for the other tips.
    – Herbalizer
    Commented Dec 17, 2020 at 13:15

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Well, at my situation... I downloaded the company website from production to localhost because I was needed to prepare a development environment for some developers. The production is using https:// and at localhost http://, and when I ran it the first time on localhost, it always redirected me to the https://.

And, I have managed to made this working on my localhost simply by adding the following lines in the wp-config.php (my wp version was 4.9.8):

define('FORCE_SSL', false);
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', false);

Good luck!

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Make sure you don't have installed and activated a plugin that forces a redirection to HTTPS, for example, the Really Simple SSL. If you have one, deactivate it on the localhost by renaming the plugin folder name, e.g. rename it from "really-simple-ssl" to "really-simple-ssl_deactivated". Now you should be able to access your wp-admin URL.

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Well, if you can access /wp-admin/, the solution is pretty simple - clean your browser cache or try to open your website in incognito tab.

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  • Sorry. I should've stated that I tried the things you mentioned, still not working out.
    – popeye
    Commented Nov 12, 2017 at 15:39
  • Did you make all database replacements?
    – Misha Rudrastyh
    Commented Nov 12, 2017 at 15:42
  • for that I thought Duplicator takes care of though I checked the wp_options table if registered url is on https, but no it's on http. any other table i should be checking into?
    – popeye
    Commented Nov 12, 2017 at 15:45
  • Of course, I recommend yo use this tool to generate all database queries for your phpMyAdmin rudrastyh.com/tools/sql-queries-generator
    – Misha Rudrastyh
    Commented Nov 12, 2017 at 15:46
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You should comment out these lines in .htaccess file 

#RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} !=on
#RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
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  • Please edit your answer, and add an explanation: why could that solve the problem?
    – fuxia ♦
    Commented Oct 2, 2018 at 23:08
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You can easily do it with wp cli.

  1. Install wp-cli using the instruction here
  2. run wp plugin deactivate really-simple-ssl from terminal.

You can also add autocomplete to your bash terminal so you can easily see suggestion of plugins you have installed.

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