Local Umbraco Site Backoffice Unintentionally publishes to Live Production Site

Question

I'm fairly new at working with Umbraco and ASP.net. I'm working on getting an existing Umbraco site working locally but i'm having a few strange issues and I'm having some difficulty finding an answer.

When I load my backoffice the url is http://localhost:52533/umbraco#/umbraco. I just set up the local site and all of the content nodes from the site are there and they say they are in the cache, but not published. When I click save and publish, the url for the content goes to my site "www.mydomain.com/nodename", which is definitely not the behavior I expected.

When I try to load http://localhost:52533/, I get an error:

Cannot create a Umbraco.Core.Security.UmbracoBackOfficeIdentity from System.Security.Claims.ClaimsIdentity since the required claim http://umbraco.org/2015/02/identity/claims/backoffice/sessionid is missing.

If anyone can help me figure out what is going on here, it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The first part is (most likely) because host names have been defined for the site.

Host names can be defined on any node in Umbraco, but inside Umbraco you navigate to the root content node inside Umbraco (the parent of "nodename" in your mydomain.com/nodename), right click it and select "Manage hostnames". If you just remove any defined host names the site should run fine on localhost.

I don't know if that corrects the second error as well :-s