I'm a newbie upgrading an ExpressionEngine site from 1.6.8 to 2.7.2. I did this on my local server. Worked pretty well but I lucked out since I don't have any add-ons to upgrade. However, not everything is showing up on my home page or control panel. I'm guessing that the other navigation links and some css and image srcs are tied to the site_url in the database, which would be looking for these elements on mydomain.com and not the local server.
I'm assuming that this would all be OK when uploaded to the remote server and the absolute paths are restored, but I want to be careful. Can I change the {site_url} in the database or admin somewhere to check this and give it another look? Should I just upload changes from localhost and make the necessary adjustments in the control panel?