When developing WordPress Site, sometime you may need to have more than one configuration such as different Database settings. For example, I may have one database setting for my local machine and one for my webserver. There are many ways to handle that, and my trick is this:
First create a file called local-config.php
Then in wp-config.php, modify little bit:
The magic here is you only keep local-config.php in your local machine. When WordPress starts, it will try to locate local-config.php under the same directory of wp-config.php. If it successfully located the file, it will use the configuration in local-config.php instead. Otherwise, default config for your deployment server will be used if that file is not found.
You can apply the same logic for different environment settings. 