How to tell if your WordPress installation is redirecting your page

Introduction

You may wish to determine if WordPress is redirecting your URL to a different location. The procedure below will show you a reliable method to accomplish this.

Procedure

1. Access your server using SSH as the root user
2. Use the 'curl' tool to visit your site and follow any redirects automatically:

   curl -IL http://cp-testsite.com

3. The headers returned by curl will tell you if a redirect was performed, and should include where it came from:

   HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently           <-- domain was redirected
   Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:26:38 GMT
   Server: Apache                           <-- Web Server that responded
   X-Redirect-By: WordPress                 <-- Application/Service that redirected it
   Location: https://cp-test-wordpress.com/ <-- Redirect destination
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8