Wordpress - Wordpress on a local machine redirecting to online url
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' );
If I understand right you had restored backup of live site to local installation?
Basically you have two ways to handle it:
Change site URL (I recommend
RELOCATE
way, always works nicely for me).Use hosts file of your OS to point live domain at your local IP (
127.0.0.1
).