Replacing existing Joomla with WordPress

  • Dear all,
    I will need to totally replace a client’s Joomla site with WP site that i develop. I don’t need to import anything from the old joomla site. I just need to replace it with the WP site. But I do need to keep the back up copy of the Joomla site, or I might think to keep it running for a little while on a subdomain.

    My question are:
    – What is the best practice to suit my plan? How should I install the new WP site without totally shut the old site down? Can I install the WP site first on a sub folder and make it running, then later move it to the main home directory? Or is there a better way?
    – I know nothing about Joomla. How do I put the Joomla site into a maintenance mode? What is the best way to back up joomla site? Should I just use the back-up function on the cPanel?
    – What is the easiest way to move joomla site to a subdomain?

    thanks all

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  • How should I install the new WP site without totally shut the old site down?

    Install WordPress in a sub-folder off the root domain. Then, when you ready to launch the new site, remove Joomla and see Giving WordPress Its Own Directory..

    I’m about to do this same thing- I’ve already got WP up and running and ready to cut over in it’s own directory, and have read both the link you posted above, as well as the one about running it in a subdirectory. My question is, what files need to remain in the root directory? I’m thinking php.ini is one of them, but what else? Can I just delete everything else that is in the current joomla root directory, as well as all of the joomla related subfolders then move all of the wp files and subdirectories into the root directory?

    Your server’s php.ini file doesn’t have anything to do with WordPress directly, so you’d would be better off asking your hosts about this.

    Just in case anyone else wanted has the same question, php.ini file needed to stay, and they suggested leaving the .htaccess and then overwriting it when I copied the WP index.php and .htaccess files over from the subdirectory. Said everything else could be deleted. This was on Bluehost.

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