I have a live site running on 7.3.  I have changed the default language to en-gb and disabled en-US.  The site works fine on "http://<livesite>". Note it does not use or go to "http://<livesite>/en-gb"  The site also has the alias dnndev.me (As originated from my development environment).  I copied the site and DB back to my development environment to change a module - which is fairly routine.  The problem is that now every time I try to load the development copy into a browser using http://dnndev.me it immediately redirects to "http://<livesite>/en-gb".  I cannot get it to load the development site.  I have checked the DB and remove all references to the <livesite> alias.  But it still redirects to "http://<livesite>/en-gb". How do I stop this behaviour so I can test my code?

Thanks

Nick

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for trying to help.

I want the site run on my local development machine at 127.0.0.1 (dnndev.me). The problem is that having copied the site from live to development, ensuring the dnndev.me alias is present, when I navigate to http://dnndev.me in my local development machine browser, it immediately redirects to http://<livesite>/en-gb/ , which is in any case invalid (404) as there is only one language enabled, en-gb.  There is a setting "Enable Language Parameter in URLs?" under language management, but when I uncheck this, nothing changes and the next time I return to the form - the box is checked again anyway. Under normal circumstances the site just runs at http://<livesite> (i.e. no /en-gb/ in the URL.  

You say each language has to have a primary alias - how is that determined/set?  I have just two aliases, <livesite> and dnndev.me.  I can't edit the <livesite> alias because under normal circumstance that is the alias in use. And I can't change it on my development machine, because it immediately redirects to the live site.  I seem to be in a catch-22.

I am sure I am missing something, but I haven't had this problem before when developing modules, although this is the first under 7.3.

At the moment I am trying re-installing a blank version of 7.3 just to allow me to continue working on the module - not ideal as I really want to test it in the context of the real site and need to be able to pull back a copy of the live site for full testing.

Nick