how do u move site after developed

  • rhendrix9

    (@rhendrix9)


    13 years ago

    I have a current html website and domain.
    I want to redo the site in wordpress.

    Before I do anything;
    1. where should I install wordpress, so I can develope it with no conflicts?
    2. how do I make it “live”, move it to/over the existing site?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    Install it in a domain sub-folder and then see Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    peredur

    (@peredur)

    I’d install WP in a subdirectory off your domain root. Call the sub-directory ‘wp’ or something.

    When you’ve finished building your WP site, you can move it by following the instructions at Moving WordPress.

    HTH

    PAE

    Thread Starter rhendrix9

    (@rhendrix9)

    Hmmm..

    Are all of the wordpress files .php ?

    If so couldn’t I just put it in the same directory (www) with all of the html file?
    then when I get ready couldn’t I just delete the html files and be good to go,

    Thanks

    peredur

    (@peredur)

    If you want. Just download WP and check out the files to make sure there’s no clash. And make sure that index.html gets loaded by default when someone visits your site, before index.php.

    Cheers

    PAE

    Thread Starter rhendrix9

    (@rhendrix9)

    I’m still trying to figure out how to implement this.
    I installed wordpress to the root of my domain, via fantastico.
    the install renamed the index.html to index.html.1322759552 and without me having to change the htaccess file the index.php ran by default when surfing to the domain.. I renamed the html file back and it now runs as default. So now I’m trying to figure out how/if i can develope on WP, but since the html index file is there the index.php file doesn’t run since the html file has precedence. I have not seen where i can tell wp what file to run yet.

    peredur

    (@peredur)

    The PHP file will be called if you specifically ask for it:

    https://your.site.com/index.php

    Web servers have a list of file names in their config file that they will treat as the default if they get a URL and, optionally, a path without a file name. The web server will start at the first item in the list and then go on down the list until it finds a filename that exists in the requested directory.

    Your web server obviously looks for files called index.html before looking for files called index.php. Which is the usual case. The .htaccess file has nothing to do with it.

    Or, alternatively, you could do what we all suggested in the first place and install WP in a subfolder and move it when you’re ready.

    HTH

    PAE

    Thread Starter rhendrix9

    (@rhendrix9)

    OK, I have it installed in a subfolder now. Everyone can relax ??

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