Installing WP in domain root directory

I have an existing installation of WP in a separate /blog/ folder as do most people, but I am planning on moving it to my domain root directory so that my blog home page becomes my website’s homepage, and use WP as a content management system.

Could I simply log into FTP and copy everything over, or should I do a clean install in the root directory?

Will I absolutely need to first delete everything off my site before installing?

Can I re-upload all my original static pages (except index.html) to my site after having installed WP? Can static and dynamic pages safely reside in the same directory as WP?

What happens to my cgi-bin folder which contains various scripts?

What happens to any dynamic script-generated pages I have running?

I wonder if I should use the webhost’s own automatic WP installation program in cpanel, or just do a manual install. The last time I tried using their Fantastico to install something, I had a lot of problems. Manual installation worked best.

Fred

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