Hi,
> ut when I try to restore the akeeba back up to my localhost, no go. I just don't understand why it keeps redirecting.
If you make a backup of your actual website with Akeeba and allow you to restore later, still on your actual site, there will be no problems.
But if you restore a local site, there may be problems.
There may be a configuration file has a absolute URL value and not relative or using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
I do not know if Akeeba backup and restores the database, but if it does, it can also be an absolute url in the database values.
Before launching the local site, you can clear the wamp/logs/access.log file then launch the local site then read the log file to see from when the url link to the actual site.
With Firefox, you may use the extension
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