i have a site that will use a temporary domain name while i'm finishing the site. but i'm concerned that the configuration settings might not work when i switch it to the real permanent domain name. does anyone have an experience with such a situation??? i tried google and changing the values to the temporary site domain name on configuration.php does not seem to work.
Changing the domain name is easy. You just update the name in 2 places in the configuration.php and copy of the site + db to your new location. I do this all the time. I develop my templates locally on my home domain, then copy the zip the site up, copy it over to rockettheme demo domain, and unzip it, then i modify the configuration.php file to match the new domain and the new virtual paths. Then i copy over the db with phpMyAdmin, keeping the same db name, user and password. And boom, it just works.