ADMIN button does not bring up the Dashboard. Acts like VIEW SITE

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Hello,

I just transferred a site following Clay’s suggestion in How can I import a site into Local by Flywheel and including solely the SQL file containing the database and the /wp-content folder.

When I dragged and dropped the zip file in Local, my site was up in a snap! Amazing!!!

However, I have a problem, probably coming from the site I transferred, as it does not happen at the other site I have on Local.

When I press VIEW SITE, the site comes up as expected at URI newsite.local/

But, when I press ADMIN, it initially shows newsite.local/wp-admin, with /wp-admin appearing dimmed. Then wp-admin immediately disappears, probably due to redirection to newsite.local/

In the other site that I also have on Local, the ADMIN leads to othersite.local/wp-admin/ and shows the Dashboard.

How can I get the Dashboard to show at the new site too?

Thank you in advance,

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Hey!

This seems like something that came from the live environment and wasn’t supposed to, and doesn’t work very well with Local…
Do you have a “.htaccess” file in the Local site folder? It should be a hidden file. This file can tell you if there are any redirects happening in this URL.

Does the direct access to “yoursite.local/wp-admin” in the browser works? If not, try “yoursite.local/wp-login.php” as well.

Also, check if your whole site is working properly, there might be a misconfiguration somewhere that leads to this “redirect”… You can check wp-config.php for that too.