I'm trying to install Wordpress on my temporary URL- the one Lunarpages gave me in my Critical Account Info email. I was told by my salesperson that this was possible. While I was able to install WP in the root, all the other pages (including /wp-admin) get redirected to another URL- my existing site, hosted with another company. My idea was to build the beta site on Lunar's temporary URL, then redirect the nameservers from my existing host when it's ready to go live. But is this even possible?

Thanks,
braaad

Wordpress stores the URL it uses in several places in the database. You need to change the URL in the database and change it back when you want to use the original domain. However, normally the temp URL will not work with PHP scripts because we run it as suPHP. You may see an Internal Server Error.

A simpler way to test without changing the URLs is to use your hosts file to switch the address for your domain for yourself only. See http://www.lunarforums.com/forum/index.php?topic=20444.msg150792#msg150792