If you wonder why your browser redirects you from your local development URL to your live URL – it’s probably because you had your local apache redirect to your live URL (since you forgot to strip the lines from your dev .htaccess or whatsoever) and your browser has cached that redirect. So if you removed your .htacces already and still get redirected and are almost up to smashing your motherfrickin machine then try flushing your browser cache (somethin‘ like options->advanced->clear now). Totally worked for me.
Y’ain’t stupid; or at least, we both are.