My team and I are working on a Wordpress site together. We have one person doing data entry on a live server and the rest of us are working locally. What we would like to do is have our local solutions point to the live server database so that we can develop around the actual database content that has been entered.

I have added our IP address as an "Access Host" to the Remote MySQL section of our hosting account and confirmed that I am able to connect to the database remotely(using the live server's IP). 

Since the `home`/`site` url are pointing to our live server domain in the database, it is my understanding that we will need to edit our `hosts` file in order to mask our local URL as the live URL.

The local URL I use is <http://localhost:8888/wordpress> so I added this line to my hosts file:

```
127.0.0.1 ourliveserver.com www.ourliveserver.com

```

But when I try to access <http://ourliveserver.com/wordpress> I am getting `ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED`

Can anyone tell me where I went wrong?