Preview unpublished pages?

[torf]

I have a strange issue when previewing unpublished pages, and need some advice how processwire is supposed to work:

When I add a new page in my tree a logged in user can preview the page even when it is unpublished via the view button. On my production site this is no problem and would of course be the desired behaviour.
But on my live site clicking on "view" ends in a 404 every time as long as the page is unpublished. That even happens when I'm logged in as superuser.

What is the "normal" behaviour" and does anyone know what could cause that effect?

 

[teppo]

4 hours ago, torf said:

When I add a new page in my tree a logged in user can preview the page even when it is unpublished via the view button.

This is the expected behaviour, with one catch: users with edit access to said pages should be able to view them. This always includes superusers.

If you are certain that the sites themselves are identical (code and site settings, template settings, permissions, etc.) there are a couple of things to check first:

- Is there some sort of caching on the live site that isn't present on the working environment?

- Is the admin domain the same as the one used after clicking "view" links on the live site?

[torf]

Thanks @teppo!!

Sometimes taking a second look helps. The Domain "view" is pointing to has a "www", while the backend I used has not. Now I know where I need to make adjustments.